# Credit Manager A Credit Manager is a specialized actor in the Arkis ecosystem who actively manages capital on behalf of Liquidity Providers. Credit Managers can operate their own dedicated Vaults, through which they attract and deploy capital across Arkis Liquidity Pools under a defined investment strategy. Each Credit Manager can launch one or more dedicated Vaults, giving them a branded and transparent vehicle for attracting capital from external investors or LPs. These Vaults inherit all the native security, compliance, and automation features of the Arkis infrastructure. ### **What Credit Managers Do** * **Capital Deployment:** Allocate capital from their Vault across multiple Liquidity Pools, optimizing for risk-adjusted yield and capital efficiency. * **Risk Management:** Must set whitelisted collateral types, protocols, and asset exposures for those Liquidity Pools where they allocate capital. * **Performance-Based Incentives:** Credit Managers earn a performance fee from the profit generated for Vault depositors—aligning incentives between manager and LPs. --- # 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.arkis.xyz/home/concepts/credit-manager.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.