FX Haircut Percentage - CSA Provision

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Value” means, for any Valuation Date or other date for which Value is calculated, and subject to Paragraph 4 in the case of a dispute, with respect to:

(i) Eligible Credit Support (VM) comprised in a Credit Support Balance (VM) or Equivalent Credit Support (VM) that is:
(A) an amount of cash, the Base Currency Equivalent of such amount multiplied by (VP – HFX), provided that, in the case of a determination of a Value for the purposes of Paragraph 6, the Value will be the Base Currency Equivalent of such amount; and
(B) a security, the Base Currency Equivalent of the bid price obtained by the Valuation Agent multiplied by (VP – HFX), where:
VP equals the applicable Valuation Percentage; and
HFX equals the applicable FX Haircut Percentage,
provided that, in the case of a determination of a Value for the purposes of Paragraph 6, the Value will be the Base Currency Equivalent of the bid price obtained by the Valuation Agent; and
(ii) items that are comprised in a Credit Support Balance (VM) and are not Eligible Credit Support (VM) (including any item or any portion of any item that fails to satisfy any (A) Credit Support Eligibility Conditions (VM) applicable to it or (B) applicable Legal Eligibility Requirements), zero provided that any items that are comprised in a Credit Support Balance (VM) that are not Eligible Credit Support (VM) will, in the case of a determination of a Value for the purposes of Paragraph 6, have a Value determined in accordance with (i) above as if they were Eligible Credit Support (VM).

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FX Haircut Percentage” means, for any item of Eligible Credit Support (VM), the percentage specified as such in Paragraph 11(c)(v).

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Template:ISDA English Law Credit Support Annex 2016 11(c)(v)

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A provision that assuredly goes into the I’m sorry I asked category. Relevant to the calculation of Value of a gentleman’s Credit Support Balance. An observation one might make here is that if you have a cash-only CSA and as long as you only accept the Major Currencies, then this entire Rube Goldberg provision is unnecessary: The Valuation Percentage will (most likely) be 100%, the FX Haircut Percentage will be zero, so the definition of value that these definitions feed into amounts to the following:

The amount (call it n) multiplied by the sum of 100% minus zero%, or
n * (100% - 0%), or
n * 100%, or
n.

Sigh.