Haircut

The Jolly Contrarian’s Glossary The snippy guide to financial services lingo.™ Go Premium Index — Click the ᐅ to expand: Glossary Comments? Questions? Suggestions? Requests? Insults? We’d love to 📧 hear from you. Sign up for our newsletter.

In ISDA parlance, the Valuation Percentage applied to posted Credit Support Obligations. In the world of stock lending, it’s the “Margin” percentage of Collateral, even though Margin is a particularly bad word for it.

Not to be confused with initial margin or an Independent Amount.

See also

• Independent Amount
• Valuation Percentage
• Market Value
• Margin