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Settlement & Fails

Settlement is the moment a trade becomes real: securities delivered against cash on the value date. A fail is when one side can't deliver in time. Managing fails — spotting them early, investigating, chasing, partial-settling — is the daily bread of trade-support and settlements teams.

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