Delivery Vs. Payment (DVP) Financial Glossary

What is it? The simultaneous exchange of securities and cash. The safest method of settling either the purchase or sale of a security. In a DVP settlement, the funds are wired from the buyers account and the security is delivered from the sellers account in simultaneous, interdependent wires.

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