#Settlement
Articles about Settlement — exploring patterns, best practices, and real-world implementations in production systems.
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Settle securities delivery-versus-payment on T+2 through a central securities depository — the securities analog to FX PvP.
Settle securities delivery-versus-payment on T+2 through a central securities depository — the securities analog to FX PvP.
How a captured card transaction turns into money in a merchant's bank account — batching, gross-to-net fees, reserves, adjustments, and the T+N funding file.
From captured transactions to merchant bank account: batching, interchange/scheme-fee deduction, reserves/holdbacks, and T+N funding files.
Two ways to borrow against securities — a lending fee or a repo rate — and the daily collateral servicing that keeps both alive.
Loan vs repo mechanics, collateral schedules and haircuts, daily mark-to-market and margin, recalls, and rehypothecation risk.
How a central counterparty turns a web of bilateral trades into a single, mutualized book of risk — and what your clearing systems must do to survive the margin cycle.
Novation to a central counterparty, initial vs variation margin, margin calls, and the default waterfall (margin, default fund, skin-in-the-game).
Two ways to move interbank money, and the engineering tradeoff that decides which one you build: settle every payment gross and pay in liquidity, or net at a window and carry settlement risk.
Teaches the engineering tradeoffs between gross real-time settlement and deferred net settlement: liquidity vs finality, queue/gridlock resolution in RTGS, and settlement-risk windows in DNS.
Reconciling correspondent-bank balances with mirror-account bookkeeping, camt.053 matching, value-date breaks, and unreconciled-item aging.
Teaches how to reconcile correspondent-bank nostro/vostro balances: mirror-account bookkeeping, expected-vs-actual statement (camt.053) matching, value-date breaks, and unreconciled-item aging.
How matched-leg submission, net pay-in scheduling, and conditional simultaneous settlement remove Herstatt risk from cross-currency trades.
Teaches how payment-versus-payment settlement eliminates Herstatt (principal) risk in FX: matched trade submission, pay-in schedules, simultaneous conditional settlement, and pay-out with net funding.
How to turn thousands of gross obligations into the fewest net positions per counterparty — with deterministic cutoff snapshots, netting cycles, and net-debit-cap enforcement.
Teaches how to build a netting engine that collapses many gross obligations into minimal net settlement positions per counterparty, handling netting cycles, cutoff snapshots, and net-debit-cap enforcement.
How a single issuer event fans out into thousands of entitlements, why deadlines are terminal, and what the calculation engine actually has to get right.
The announcement to ex-date to record-date to payment lifecycle for mandatory and voluntary corporate actions, and the entitlement/election engine behind it.
All posts on this site are written by Pratik Dhanave, an Agentic AI Architect with 7+ years building production distributed systems, multi-agent AI platforms, and cloud-native infrastructure. About the author → Each article includes working code, architecture diagrams, and references to the specific frameworks and standards discussed. Browse all posts or explore related topics using the tag cloud above.