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RBA Glossary definition for margin payment
margin payment – A payment made to meet a margin call, to cover an adverse movement in the price of physical assets, such as equities or units in managed funds, or derivatives, such as futures, options or swap contracts.
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Central Counterparty Margin Frameworks
7 Dec 2017
Bulletin
– December 2017
A central counterparty's (CCP's) margin framework can affect the activity of market participants and the broader functioning of the financial system. This potential impact on financial stability is an area of focus for authorities – in Australia
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/bulletin/2017/dec/10.html
Bank Interest Rate Margins
10 May 1992
Bulletin
– May 1992
Graph 1C. As indicators of margins, however, these measures are simplistic and misleading. ... The most useful measure of banks' margins is the average net spread – i.e.
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/bulletin/1992/may/1.html
Competition: Profitability and Margins | Conference – 1991
21 Jun 1991
Conferences
Intuition suggests that a fair slice of “payments systems” costs must be loaded into this $3 margin per $100 of assets. ... Suffice to say at this juncture that margins on international business were slim relative to the average margin achieved in
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/confs/1991/phelps.html
Costs and Margins in the Retail Supply Chain
10 Jun 2012
Bulletin
– June 2012
These gross margins represent a payment for the services provided by distribution firms acting as intermediaries between manufacturers and consumers. ... 52. 48. Sources: ABS; RBA. Distributors' gross margins can be divided into a wholesale and retail
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/bulletin/2012/jun/2.html
Bulletin
18 Apr 2024
Bulletin
Insights into the economy and financial system from teams throughout the Reserve Bank of Australia
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/bulletin/
Is Monetary Policy Less Effective When Interest Rates Are Persistently Low? | Conference – 2017
16 Mar 2017
Conferences
English (2002) studies the link between interest rate risk and bank interest rate margins in ten industrialised countries. ... Genay and Podjasek (2014) also find that persistently low interest rates depress US banks' net interest margins.
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/confs/2017/borio-hofmann.html
Statement on Monetary Policy
10 Aug 2004
Bulletin
– August 2004
Consumer confidence is at its highest level in a decade and consumer spending has started to receive a significant boost from the additional benefit payments and tax cuts announced in the
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/bulletin/2004/aug/1.html
Competition and Profit Margins in the Retail Trade Sector
20 Jun 2019
Bulletin
– June 2019
Net profit margins have declined for both food and non-food retailers over recent years.
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/bulletin/2019/jun/competition-and-profit-margins-in-the-retail-trade-sector.html
Banks' Funding Costs and Lending Rates
10 Mar 2012
Bulletin
– March 2012
Likewise, there was little change in the risk margins banks used to determine loan rates. ... compared with the decline in margins experienced over the preceding decade (Graph 11).
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/bulletin/2012/mar/5.html
Semi-Annual Statement on Monetary Policy
10 Nov 1997
Bulletin
– November 1997
the ASEAN-4 region), in some cases by a large margin (Table 3). ... The following sections cover the household and business sectors and Australia's balance of payments.
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/bulletin/1997/nov/2.html