all activities from the time a commitment is made for a financial transaction until it is settled
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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. Clearing houses were formed to facilitate such transactions among banks.
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Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).