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When money is placed into an escrow account, what is the effect in the event the payer enters an insolvency process?

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Published on: 21 April 2017
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An Escrow account is an interest-bearing bank account to which certain specified criteria are attached which must be satisfied before funds can be released from the account. These conditions will be set out in the associated Escrow agreement.

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