# Client Funds Segregation
**Domain:** Digital Afterlife / Finance / Custody
**Doc Type:** Canonical Concept
**Maturity:** Developed
**Evidence / Concept Status:** Established regulatory mechanism
## Definition
**Client Funds Segregation** requires customer assets to be kept separate from an operator's ordinary assets so provider insolvency does not automatically consume beneficiary property.
## Continuity Significance
It is a direct financial analogue for separating continuity reserves from the hosting provider.
## Existing Architecture / Evidence
Gaming, brokerage, legal trust accounts, payments, and other regulated sectors use segregation rules.
## Evidentiary Boundary / Red-Team Note
Segregated funds protect assets, not identity or execution state unless continuity law extends the principle.
## Related Ontology
[[wiki/Continuity Trust|Continuity Trust]] · [[wiki/Financial Assurance|Financial Assurance]] · [[wiki/Privateered Continuity|Privateered Continuity]] · [[wiki/Malta Player Funds and Regulatory Custody|Malta Player Funds and Regulatory Custody]]
## Sources / Provenance
- https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/guidance/customer-funds-segregation-disclosure-to-customers-and-reporting/introduction-customer-funds-segregation-disclosure-to-customers-and