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Margin

Highly liquid collateral that is required (to be posted) in order to cover adverse market price movements. This reflects the…

Original Margin

An amount of cash that is deposited or collateral (eligible securities) that is posted with a clearing house to ensure...

Performance Bond

An amount of cash that is deposited or collateral (eligible securities) that is posted with a clearing house to ensure...

Initial Margin

An amount of cash that is deposited or collateral (eligible securities) that is posted with a clearing house to ensure...

Operating Margin

A profitability ratio that reflects a company's efficiency as to generating profits from its operations. It measures the percentage of...

Operating Profit Margin

A profitability ratio that reflects a company's efficiency as to generating profits from its operations. It measures the percentage of...

Futures-Style Margining

In relation to a futures-style option (a futures contract on an option-like payoff), and similar to a standard futures contract,...

CSM

It stands for contractual service margin; the unearned profit that an insurance firm expects to earn from the services it...

Contractual Service Margin

The unearned profit that an insurance firm expects to earn from the services it provides. Many insurance firms usually recognize...

Excess Margin Securities

Those securities (aka margin securities), in a customer's account, that currently have a market value exceeding a specific percentage (above...