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Regulatory Accounting Procedures (RAP)
Definition: Accounting principles required by the FHLB that allow S&Ls to elect annually to defer gains and losses on the sale of assets and amortize these deferrals over the average life of the asset sold.
Regulatory Pricing Risk
Definition: Risk that arises when insurance companies are subject to regulation of the premium rates that can they charge.
Regulatory Surplus
Definition: The surplus as measured using regulatory accounting principles (RAP), which may allow the nonmarket valuation of assets or liabilities and which may be materially different from economic surplus.
Rehypothecation
Definition: Pledging to banks by securities brokers of the amount in customers' margin account as collateral for broker loans, which are used to cover margin loans to customers for margin purchases and selling short.
Reimbursable Expenses
Definition: Out-of-pocket expenses paid to third parties during the shared loss period of a loss sharing agreement. The expenses are paid to effect recoveries and to manage, operate, and maintain owned real estate net of income received on that property. Examples of reimbursable expenses include the cost of appraisals, title policies, and environmental site assessments.
Reimbursement
Definition: Payment made to someone for out-of-pocket expenses has incurred.
Reinstatement
Definition: The restoration of an insurance policy after it has lapsed for nonpayment of premiums.
Reinsurance
Definition: The spreading of risk and division of client premiums among insurance companies allowing the sharing of the burden of a large risk.
Reinvestment
Definition: Use of investment income to buy additional securities. Many mutual fund companies and investment services offer the automatic reinvestment of dividends and capital gains distributions as an option investors.
Reinvestment Date
Definition: The date on which an investment's dividend or capital gains income is reinvested, if requested by the shareholder, to purchase additional shares. Also known as the ex-dividend date.
Reinvestment Effect
Definition: The impact of a change in interest rates on the reinvestment rate.
Reinvestment Privilege
Definition: A shareholder's right to reinvest dividends and buy more shares in the corporation or mutual fund.
Reinvestment Rate
Definition: The rate at which an investor assumes interest payments made on a debt security can be reinvested over the life of that security.
Reinvestment Risk
Definition: The risk that proceeds received in the future may have to be reinvested at a lower potential interest rate.
Reinvoicing Center
Definition: A central financial subsidiary an MNC uses to reduce transaction exposure by billing all home country exports in the home currency and reinvoicing to each operating affiliate in that affiliate's localcurrency. It can also be used as a netting center.
Rejection
Definition: Refusal by a bank to grant credit, usually because of the applicants financial history, or refusal to accept a security presented to complete a trade, usually because of a lack of proper endorsements or violation of rules of a firm.
Relative Form Of Purchasing Power Parity
Definition: Theory that the rate of change in the prices of products should be somewhat similar, but not absolutely the same when measured in a common currency, as long as transportation costs and trade barriers are unchanged.
Relative PE
Definition: A firm or industry's price to earnings ratio divided by the market price to earnings ratio.
Relative Purchasing Power Parity (RPPP)
Definition: Idea that the rate of change in the price level of commodities in one country relative to the price level in another determines the rate of change of the exchange rate between the two countries' currencies.
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