Economic,Banking and Financial Terms: Escrow Cash, securities or other valuable instruments that are held by a third party to ensure that the obligations under a contract are discharged. The escrow mechanism is a technique of mitigating the risk to lenders and it is used typically in infrastructure projects such as power, roads or telecom. For example, an escrow account can be set up at a bank for depositing the payments of electricity bills.
Posted on: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 13:25:00 +0000
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