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Digital assets and currencies

Understand assets, networks and trading mechanics with sources you can check.

Trading basics

Block trade

A block trade is a high-volume transaction in a security that is privately negotiated and executed outside of the open market for that security. Major broker-dealers often provide "block trading" services—sometimes known as "upstairs trading desks"—to their institutional clients. In the United States and Canada a block trade is usually at least 10,000 shares of a stock or $100,000 of bo

Finance

Product control

Product Control is a control and support function, responsible for ensuring accurate financial reporting for trading, lending and treasury desks.

Finance

Treasury management

Treasury management (or treasury operations) entails management of an enterprise's financial holdings, focusing on the firm's liquidity, and mitigating its financial, operational and reputational risk.