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Safeguarding

What crypto means by it

The rule that a payment firm must keep customer money separate from its own, in accounts it cannot spend from, so balances survive the company failing.

What you already know this as

Client money rules. The reason a regulated balance is not simply an IOU from a company you hope stays solvent.

Related terms

Counterparty risk Reserves Issuer

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