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1. ''Accounting.''
1.  


Profit margins measure the surplus of revenues over relevant costs, often expressed as a percentage.
The official control of markets or of other activities, usually by a system of rules, often including primary or secondary legislation.


Profit margins are usually expressed as a percentage of revenues, for example in the Net profit margin.


2.


Less commonly, margins can also be expressed as a margin (percentage) on relevant costs.
''Law.''
A rule with legal force, designed to carry out a specific piece of legislation. Usually enforced by a regulatory agency.  


Gross profit measured as a percentage of costs is also sometimes known as ''markup'', an amount added to costs to determine a selling price.


3.


2. ''Banking.''
''European Union law''.


Net interest margin (NIM).
An act of European Union (EU) law having direct effect in all member states.


EU Regulations are passed either jointly by the EU Council and European Parliament, or by the EU Commission alone.


3. ''Bank lending.''


Lending margin is a percentage amount added explicitly to a market reference rate, to calculate the total rate of interest payable by a borrower.
4.  


More generally, a rule to control, direct or manage an activity, organisation or system.


4. ''Derivatives markets.''
A 'regulation' - in this broadest sense - may or may not have legal authority.
 
Margin is a refundable deposit payable by market participants to protect other participants in the market against the risk of a default.
 
In this context, margin is a form of collateral.
 
 
5. ''Financing.''
 
An amount implicitly built into a total interest rate or discount rate - charged to a client - to cover risk and a level of profit for the finance provider.
 
 
6. ''Secured lending.''
 
An amount deducted from the value of an asset used as collateral, to calculate the maximum amount of any loan to be secured against the asset.
 
Also known as a 'haircut'.
 
 
7.  ''Project planning and management.''
 
A ''safety margin'' is an allowance for worsening of a key input or variable in a project.
 
 
8.
 
Any other difference, usually a relatively small difference compared with the amounts themselves being compared.
 
For example, forward margin in foreign exchange markets.




== See also ==
== See also ==
* [[Alternate Base Rate]]
* [[Benchmarks Regulation]]
* [[Bank margin]]
* [[Blocking Regulation]]
* [[Basel Committee on Banking Supervision]]  (BCBS)
* [[Compliance risk]]
* [[Collateral]]
* [[CSRC]]
* [[Contribution margin]]
* [[Decision]]
* [[EMIR]]
* [[Deregulation]]
* [[Exchange traded]]
* [[Directive]]
* [[Forward margin]]
* [[European Union ]]
* [[Futures]]
* [[IFR]]
* [[Haircut]]
* [[Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation]]
* [[Initial margin]]
* [[MAR]]
* [[International Swaps and Derivatives Association]] (ISDA)
* [[Primary legislation]]
* [[International Organization of Securities Commissions]] (IOSCO)
* [[Red tape]]
* [[Maintenance margin]]
* [[Regtech]]
* [[Margin call]]
* [[Secondary legislation]]
* [[Margin compression]]
* [[Securitisation Regulation]]
* [[Margin of safety]]
* [[SFTR]]
* [[Margin on costs]]
* [[Transparency]]
* [[Margin risk]]
* [[Window-dressing]]
* [[Marginal]]
* [[Margining]]
* [[Markup]]
* [[Net profit margin]]
* [[NII]]
* [[NIM]]
* [[Over the counter]]
* [[Profit margin]]
* [[Stepped margin]]
* [[Sustainability Linked Loan Principles]]
* [[Tax sparing]]
* [[Uncleared Margin Rule]] (UMR)
* [[Variation margin]]
* [[WGMR]]




== External link ==
===Other links===
[https://www.bis.org/bcbs/publ/d499.pdf Margin requirements for non-centrally cleared derivatives - BCBS and IOSCO]
[http://www.treasurers.org/ACTmedia/Report%20on%20Regulatory%20Issues%20EACT%20Q2%202018%20for%20publication.pdf European Association of Corporate Treasurers, quarterly report on regulatory issues, July 2018]


[[Category:Accounting,_tax_and_regulation]]
[[Category:Accounting,_tax_and_regulation]]
[[Category:The_business_context]]
[[Category:Compliance_and_audit]]
[[Category:Financial_products_and_markets]]

Revision as of 09:27, 10 July 2019

1.

The official control of markets or of other activities, usually by a system of rules, often including primary or secondary legislation.


2.

Law.

A rule with legal force, designed to carry out a specific piece of legislation. Usually enforced by a regulatory agency.


3.

European Union law.

An act of European Union (EU) law having direct effect in all member states.

EU Regulations are passed either jointly by the EU Council and European Parliament, or by the EU Commission alone.


4.

More generally, a rule to control, direct or manage an activity, organisation or system.

A 'regulation' - in this broadest sense - may or may not have legal authority.


See also


Other links

European Association of Corporate Treasurers, quarterly report on regulatory issues, July 2018

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