remargin

English

Etymology

re- +‎ margin

Verb

remargin (third-person singular simple present remargins, present participle remargining, simple past and past participle remargined)

1. (finance) To update the margin on an investment; to check and if necessary adjust the collateral security to a broker in case the price of an investment has changed more than the current margin can cover.
   • 1912, New York Produce Review and American Creamery:

     Positive denial is made by local dealers of the report from New York that Chicago owners of storage eggs will be required to remargin their holdings at $1.50.

   • 1975, Commodity Futures Law Reporter, page 42:

     By making only a small additional margin deposit, or in some cases no additional deposit, a purchaser can remargin his account and buy more silver.

   • 2004, Michael K. Ong, The Basel Handbook: A Guide for Financial Practitioners, page 94:

     Note that, for repo-style transactions with core market participants, the haircut may be set to zero, provided that: both the exposure and the collateral are cash or a sovereign security qualifying for a 0% risk weight; no currency mismatch exists between the exposure and the collateral; the transaction is overnight or marked-to-market and remargined daily; the collateral can be liquidated within four days if the counterparty fails to remargin; the transaction is settled across a proven settlement system and governed by standard documentation (specifying that, if the counterparty fails on its obligations, then the transaction is immediately terminable and the collateral can immediately be seized and liquidated).

2. To change the size of the margin (on a document).
   • 1979, Oncomputing - Issue 2, page 48:

     To name a few of its abilities, it will: • align margins left or right, or center lines • automatically put in returns as you type • indent (or outdent) paragraphs • allow you to insert or delete freely • move paragraphs (or any portion of the text) from place to place • allow you to undo a deletion • remargin and reparagraph if necessary • do a wide range of search and search-and-replace operations

   • 1984, K. Buckner, Using the UCSD P-system, page 86:

     The cursor must not be placed in the line containing the Command Character when using M(argin as this causes the Editor to ignore the Command Character and remargin that line and any adjacent lines

   • 1995, Studies in the History of Art - Volume 51, page 120:

     Yet, reflecting current approaches, he also explained how to split a sheet of paper and remargin a print

Noun

remargin (plural remargins)

1. An additional payment made when remargining.
   • 1906, In the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State, page 464:

     Order received from Mr. H.E. Beckett to buy ten shares Tennessee Coal and Iron at 17¼, remargin required, $30.

   • 1925, Thomas Southworth Miller, Cotton Trade Guide and Student's Manual, page 109:

     but it will be recalled that each original Contract purchased cost at least $100 as a Margin; that the exchanging from one month to another cost $100 if the Market has declined; that a decline of 17 points (if Dealer is not well rated) will call for an additional $100, and a subsequent decline of a similar number of points calls for a remargin of like amount.

2. The act of remargining.
   • 1909, The Magazine of Wall Street - Volumes 5-6, page 172:

     He was unable to explain to our satisfaction how he could handle 10 shares on $30 margin “so that all transactions made under the double trading system are protected and there are no calls for remargins."

   • 2005, Michael S. Gibson, Measuring Counterparty Credit Exposure to a Margined Counterparty:

     The third and fourth rows of Figures 1 and 2 show how the grace period and the remargin period affect EPE.

   • 2010, Jon Gregory, Counterparty Credit Risk, page 109:

     As illustrated in Figure 5.1, at some point far in the future it is known that a position is likely to be well-collateralised and hence the main concern is the relatively small amount of risk over the remargin period.

Anagrams

• Merrigan, merrigan, rearming