7.21. Means of payment consist of monetary gold, special drawing rights, currency and transferable deposits. Financial claims entitle their owners, the creditors, to receive a payment or series of payments without any counter-performance from other institutional units, the debtors, who have incurred the counterpart liabilities.
Une créance financière donne à son propriétaire - le créancier - le droit de recevoir sans contre-prestation un ou plusieurs paiements d'une autre unité institutionnelle - le débiteur - qui a contracté l'engagement de contrepartie.