Delivery
Categories: Company Management
When you deliver something, you either present it from one owner to another, or you take out its liver.
In the financial world, delivery refers to whatever security, commodity, cash, product, or other instrument that is received by the buyer for payment. This could be electronic and virtual, to be delivered electronically to ledger...or physical delivery of a certificate, currency, or actual goods. And even though a physical deliverer may be the vehicle, singing telegrams and strippergrams are not usually considered part of delivery parlance.
Why is this even a Thing? Like...why does it matter? Because in ye olde days when there were markets—and no computers—getting actual legal delivery of title to a property or receipt of a stock purchase or sale was...difficult. Signing had to happen. There was no electronic tracer. So the whole notion of delivery then became a mini-industry unto itself.
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Finance a la shmoop what is delivery versus payment? alright this is delivery [Man delivering package to man and woman]
and this is payment and this is what happens when the whole thing fails to go
off without a hitch yeah and yeah some poor dock worker
who's gonna have to clean all that up well when it comes to selling stock
there's typically less bloodshed but it's no less important to make sure that [Stock delivery appears at door]
delivery of the goods in this case maybe it's a hundred shares of get-rich-quick
com happen simultaneously with payment for those goods or at least so that the
payment is trackable with the delivery well delivery versus payment or DVP for
anyone who's in a hurry is from the perspective of the buyer if you're
looking at things from the seller's point of view it's RVP receive versus
payment because you're receiving the dough or the payment got it [Seller and Buyer appear]
but yeah DVP is basically a settlement system it's a way of ensuring that any
transaction involving the sale of a security goes smoothly so that no one
needs to have rocks tied to their ankles no cash no stash and no splash so why do [Person moving with rock attached to ankle]
we have delivery versus payment like why is this even a thing well you could
imagine in the past that people were paying for things that didn't exist like
they thought they were buying 100 shares of whatever.com they paid the broker and
while the shares disappear the broker disappeared everyone disappeared and oh
well money's gone so what happens today is there was typically a lag in what's
basically a mini escrow account where the money sits for a few days t plus 3 [Money appears in a vault and clock ticks]
it used to be t plus 5 being sure that the seller actually had legal title to
the shares that they were selling to you and that your money was in fact good and
not Somalian warlord laundered money or at least easily identifiable Somalian
warlord laundered money that's why there's a lag and that's why delivery
versus payment has kind of two separate steps got it get it good! stay out of the water... [Man kicks other man into water]