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Fail to Deliver

Trading Term

A fail to deliver occurs when a broker has a net short settlement obligation with the clearinghouse and does not have the shares available from its own inventory or cannot borrow them from another broker in order to meet the delivery obligation. The fail results from sale transactions and is not limited to short sales and may result from the closing sale of a long position carried on margin and eligible to be loaned to another customer.

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