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 ===[[Initial margin]] and [[independent amount]]s===
-A common confusion in the {{isdama}} is its use of “{{csaprov|Independent Amount}}” to describe what everyone else in the market colloquially calls [[initial margin]]. Were they the same? were they different? it was quite difficult on a cold read to say, especially as an {{csaprov|Independent Amount}} ''looks'', in the {{csa}}, like it is meant to function as a distinct amount of standalone credit protection, held without reference to a given {{isdaprov|Transaction}}, but in practice it does not, and is called {{isdaprov|Transaction}}-by-{{isdaprov|Transaction}}.<ref>For a fuller discussion, see {{csaprov|Independent Amount}}.</ref>
+A common confusion in the {{csa}} used to be its use of “{{csaprov|Independent Amount}}” to describe what everyone else in the market colloquially calls [[initial margin]]. Were they the same? Were they different? it was quite difficult on a cold read to say, especially as an {{csaprov|Independent Amount}} ''looks'', in the {{csa}}, like it is meant to function as a distinct amount of standalone credit protection, held without reference to a given {{isdaprov|Transaction}}, but in practice it does not, and is called {{isdaprov|Transaction}}-by-{{isdaprov|Transaction}}.<ref>For a fuller discussion, see {{csaprov|Independent Amount}}.</ref>
 Anyway, opportunistically {{icds}} has solved that problem by introducing two kinds of Margin Amount in the {{imcsd}}: the {{imcsdprov|Margin Amount (IM)}} and the {{imcsdprov|Margin Amount (IA)}}. Maybe someone thought this was a neat trick, I don’t know. It seems a dumb one to me: once everyone knew {{csaprov|Independent Amount}} and [[initial margin]] were, for all intents and purposes, the same; now they are subtly different.