Glossary

Updated 17 October 2016

The Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI) provides this glossary of payments and market infrastructure terminology as a reference to the standard terms and definitions used in connection with payment, clearing, settlement and related arrangements. Current definitions are now shown alongside the previous ones. You can generate a PDF version of the glossary here.

custodian

An entity, usually a bank, that safekeeps and administers securities or other assets for its customers and that may provide various other services, including clearing and settlement, cash management, foreign exchange transactions, securities lending and collateral management.

Updated: 16 Jun 2015

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custodian

An entity, usually a bank, that safekeeps and administers securities or other assets for its customers and that may provide various other services, including clearing and settlement, cash management, foreign exchange transactions, securities lending and collateral management.

Updated: 16 Jun 2015

Source documents

 Additional terms that are not included in the main glossary can be found in the previous version of the glossary.