# Glossary of Key Terms ## Participants * **Pool Admins:** Fintech industry experts who are responsible for managing buyer pools on behalf of the protocol * **Buyers:** Companies that approve their receivables and extend financing to their corresponding supplier with the pool * **Suppliers:** Companies that can get paid early for every buyer-approved receivable * **Liquidity Providers (LPs):** Liquidity providers who supply stablecoin capital to different liquidity pools * **Governance Council**: A group of representatives of the community DAO that configures the protocol on behalf of decentralized governance ### Concepts * **Pool:** A place where LPs can deposit funds to fund the suppliers of a particular buyer * **Unrealized Losses**: The total value of all loans that have been marked as impaired * **Receivables**: The rights a supplier has to receive payment in the future for providing products or services to the buyer (typically collected within 30, 60, 90 days) * **Loans**: When a pool admin funds a receivable approved by the buyer, a loan between the buyer and the pool is created to represent the repayment obligation. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.isle.finance/how-isle-finance-works/glossary-of-key-terms.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.