When the money is short on the day.

Most settlement-day crises are arithmetic problems that became timing problems. A risk fee came in different from the model, a daily transfer limit was never checked, a payout figure moved. The options are all still open a week out and mostly closed by 10am on the day — so the first half of this is prevention, and the second half is what to do when prevention did not happen.

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