Multilateral netting

This one is not written up yet

The definition above is the short version. A full explanation — how it works, a worked example and the exam traps — is still being written. In the meantime the chapter below covers it in context.

Written up from the same chapter

• Delivery Instruction SlipThe signed form on which a beneficial owner instructs the DP to debit the demat account — no beneficiary account can be debited without one, whether the transfer is on-market or off-market.
• Extreme Loss MarginA flat 3.5 per cent margin collected on cash-market positions to cover losses falling outside what the VaR margin is designed to capture.
• InteroperabilityA clearing member choosing one clearing corporation to clear and settle everything it trades, across all exchanges, instead of being tied to a separate clearing corporation per exchange.
• Liquid Net WorthThe part of a merchant banker's net worth deployed in unencumbered liquid assets, counted after a prescribed haircut on each asset type — a second capital test that net worth alone cannot satisfy.
• Margin pledgeThe only permitted way for a client to give securities as margin — a special pledge created in the depository system that leaves the shares in the client's own demat account instead of transferring them to the broker.
• NovationThe clearing corporation stepping into the middle of every trade — becoming the buyer to every seller and the seller to every buyer — so that neither side carries the other's default risk.