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September 2010, No. 278
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Last Updated: 08/04/2010

What Is Clearing and Why Is It Important?

Ed Nosal, Robert Steigerwald

In the financial market disruption of 2007–08, the once arcane topic of clearing of financial products took center stage in major policy debates. Generally speaking, clearing has to do with the nuts and bolts of the contractual performance of financial products after they have been traded.

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