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A financial transaction is an agreement, or communication, between a buyer and seller to exchange goods, services, or assets for payment. Any transaction involves a change in the status of the finances of two or more businesses or individuals. [1] A financial transaction always involves one or more financial asset, most commonly money or ...
ISO 8583 is an international standard for financial transaction card originated interchange messaging. It is the International Organization for Standardization standard for systems that exchange electronic transactions initiated by cardholders using payment cards. ISO 8583 defines a message format and a communication flow so that different ...
Factoring is a financial transaction and a type of debtor finance in which a business sells its accounts receivable (i.e., invoices) to a third party (called a factor) at a discount. [1][2][3] A business will sometimes factor its receivable assets to meet its present and immediate cash needs. [4][5] Forfaiting is a factoring arrangement used in ...
Banking. An automated clearing house (ACH) is a computer-based electronic network for processing transactions, [1] usually domestic low value payments, between participating financial institutions. It may support both credit transfers and direct debits. [2][3] The ACH system is designed to process batches of payments containing numerous ...
Payment system. A payment system is any system used to settle financial transactions through the transfer of monetary value. This includes the institutions, payment instruments such as payment cards, people, rules, procedures, standards, and technologies that make its exchange possible. [1][2] A payment system is an operational network which ...
Due to the uncertainty of future supply and demand fluctuations, and the price risk imposed on the farmer, the farmer in this example may use different financial transactions to reduce, or hedge, their risk. One such transaction is the use of forward contracts. Forward contracts are mutual agreements to deliver a certain amount of a commodity ...
Finance. Financial risk is any of various types of risk associated with financing, including financial transactions that include company loans in risk of default. [1][2] Often it is understood to include only downside risk, meaning the potential for financial loss and uncertainty about its extent. [3][4]
Financial markets. In banking and finance, clearing refers to all activities from the time a commitment is made for a transaction until it is settled. This process turns the promise of payment (for example, in the form of a cheque or electronic payment request) into the actual movement of money from one account to another.