Definitions
In plain terms
Information can describe the past and be officially published, yet reach your research database later. Availability time protects the test from using it too early.
Technical
Availability is consumer- and pipeline-specific and requires an owner, evidence source, clock, ingestion boundary, and conservative fallback policy when exact timing is unknown.
Scope
It is a governed platform field, not a claim that every provider uses the same name or boundary.
Examples
- A governed dataset records availability time explicitly instead of inferring it from an ambiguous field.
Common misconceptions
- Availability Time does not have one universal meaning without its stated market, source, and time context.
Concept relationships
Prerequisites
Required by
Where this concept is used
- ImportantPrevious-Tick InterpolationD01-F03-A01
- ImportantLinear Quote InterpolationD01-F03-A02
- ImportantRefresh-Time SamplingD01-F03-A03
- ImportantAsynchronous Return AlignmentD01-F03-A05
- ImportantFeed-Latency MonitorD01-F04-A02
- PrimaryPoint-in-Time Availability GuardD01-F04-A05
- ImportantTicker-Change Chain ResolutionD02-F03-A02
- ImportantHistorical Constituent Reconstruction: Rebuild the Roster Without Looking AheadD02-F04-A01
- ImportantSurvivorship-Bias Guard: Keep Historical Failures in the TestD02-F04-A02
- PrimaryIPO Availability Timestamping: Separate Listing Events from Research KnowledgeD02-F04-A03
- ImportantFiling-Revision VersioningD02-F04-A04
- ImportantIPO Fast-Entry RuleD03-F06-A04
- ImportantRebalancing AlgorithmD03-F06-A06
Evidence and governance
- Fintech Builder Glossary Definition Contract The Fintech Builder · internal governed contract
Supports: preferred label, short definition, technical definition
Limits: Defines governed platform behavior rather than claiming these policies are universally prescribed by external McClellan methodology.
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- fintech-builder-owner-approved
- Last reviewed
- 2026-07-26
- Next review
- 2027-07-26
- Record status
- published