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A bank, financial institution or other entity responsible for maintaining accurate and up-to-date registration details of the beneficial owners of those securities for which it has custodial responsibility.  
The ability of an entity to pay its liabilities as they fall due, in the short, medium and longer term.


Custodians are also responsible for the administration of the assets they hold (including trade settlement), the collection of interest or dividends, exercising the voting rights attached to certain types of securities if so required, as well as being able to provide other services such as the production of portfolio valuations and performance measurement.


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As a result of dematerialisation, the need to hold and safe keep securities in physical form has been largely removed in many of the world’s major securities markets.
Under UK law, the ability of a company - on a balance of probabilities - to meet all of its existing, prospective and contingent liabilities, taking account of future costs and of future interest obligations.


In making this assessment, future income and future asset valuations are also taken into account.


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Any organisation or individual that holds assets on behalf of another organisation or individual.
3. ''Pensions.''
 
The extent to which the assets of a defined benefit pension scheme are sufficient to meet the liabilities and thus closely related to funding level.
 
Liabilities, and thus solvency, may be calculated on a discontinuance or a going concern basis for the scheme concerned.




== See also ==
== See also ==
* [[Agent bank]]
* [[Discontinuance]]
* [[Bank]]
* [[Insolvency]]
* [[Beneficial owner]]
* [[Liquidity]]
* [[Custody]]
* [[Custody risk]]
* [[Dematerialisation]]
* [[Dividend]]
* [[Global custodian]]
* [[Interest]]
* [[Local custodian]]
* [[Security]]
* [[Securities settlement system]]
* [[Sub-custodian]]
* [[Trustees]]
 
[[Category:Identify_and_assess_risks]]
[[Category:Manage_risks]]
[[Category:Risk_frameworks]]
[[Category:Risk_reporting]]
[[Category:Cash_management]]
[[Category:Financial_products_and_markets]]
[[Category:Liquidity_management]]

Revision as of 09:35, 29 May 2013

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The ability of an entity to pay its liabilities as they fall due, in the short, medium and longer term.


2.

Under UK law, the ability of a company - on a balance of probabilities - to meet all of its existing, prospective and contingent liabilities, taking account of future costs and of future interest obligations.

In making this assessment, future income and future asset valuations are also taken into account.


3. Pensions.

The extent to which the assets of a defined benefit pension scheme are sufficient to meet the liabilities and thus closely related to funding level.

Liabilities, and thus solvency, may be calculated on a discontinuance or a going concern basis for the scheme concerned.


See also