# Settlement cycle

`kaal:entity:settlement-cycle`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 2 claims that carry the concept tag `settlement-cycle`. It is a roster of what the corpus says under this term. It is **not** an adjudicated definition: no single statement here has been ruled canonical, and no first-appearance call has been made. Read the claims and judge for yourself.

## Every claim under this term

2 claims across 1 works, 2019 to 2019.

**2019**

- [3411110-003](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3411110-003) [mechanism/argued] -- Blockchain reduces counterparty credit risk through a specific mechanism: a single shared ledger compresses the settlement cycle so that cash or securities are verifiably in the account within seconds of the trade, leaving almost no window for counterparty default.
  > credit risk is reduced because cash (if selling) or the securities (if purchasing) are in the account for verification shortly after the trade (which could be seconds, if not fractions of a second), because the settlement cycle is substantially reduced.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Samuel Evans, Blockchain-Based Securities Offerings (2019). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3411110
- [3411110-010](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3411110-010) [mechanism/argued] -- Naked or out of the box short selling is possible only because settlement takes three days, so eliminating the window between trade and settlement on a blockchain eliminates that abuse.
  > This tactic is only possible because it takes three days to settle a trade. By eliminating the window between trade and settlement, the blockchain eliminates out-of- the-box shorting.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Samuel Evans, Blockchain-Based Securities Offerings (2019). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3411110

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