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.

credit limit

A limit on the credit exposure a party is willing to face. For example, in the context of payment systems, a limit on the credit exposure a participant incurs vis-à-vis another participant (bilateral credit limit) or vis-à-vis all other participants (multilateral credit limit) as a result of receiving payments that have not yet been settled.

Updated: 16 Jun 2015

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credit limit

A limit on the credit exposure a party is willing to face. For example, in the context of payment systems, a limit on the credit exposure a participant incurs vis-à-vis another participant (bilateral credit limit) or vis-à-vis all other participants (multilateral credit limit) as a result of receiving payments that have not yet been settled.

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.