Translation of "Haircut " (English → French) :

While enhancing transparency on the re-use of collateral would be a first step towards facilitating counterparties' capacity to analyse and prevent risks, the FSB also considered it necessary to propose further reforms in the area of haircuts and margin requirements to the effect that market participants should apply haircuts on assets received as collateral for non-centrally cleared SFTs with non-banks.

Access to liquidity facilities provided by central banks, including emergency liquidity facilities, should not be considered as extraordinary public financial support provided that the institution is solvent at the moment of the liquidity provision, and such liquidity provision is not part of a larger aid package; that the facility is fully secured by collateral to which haircuts are applied, in function of its quality and market value that the central bank charges a penal interest rate to the beneficiary; and that the measure is taken at the central bank's own initiative and, in particular, is not backed by any counter-guarantee of th ...[+++]e State.

(i)a State guarantee to back liquidity facilities provided by central banks according to the banks' standard conditions (the facility is fully secured by collateral to which haircuts are applied, in function of its quality and market value, and the central bank charges a penal interest rate to the beneficiary); or

‘valuation haircuts’ are applied in the valuation of underlying assets and the DGS requires the haircut-adjusted market value of the underlying assets to be maintained over time; [Am. 43]

The minimum rating for eligibility of ABS was kept at A- and, following the result of the biennial review of the risk control measures in September 2008, ABS were classified under the lower liquidity category, which implies an haircut of 12% (an additional haircut is applied to ABS subject to theoretical valuation, i.e., the less liquid).

For policies with a residual term of less than one year, the credit institution must make appropriate haircuts reflecting the declining residual term of the policy, up to a full 100% haircut for policies with a residual term of 90 days or less;