Commission

Generally, a payment for a person who arranges transactions or renders services in the course of his trade (the fee allotted to an agent for services rendered); see Section 354 HGB. – In the financial market, the remuneration (commission income) or payment (commissions expenses) for all services of an institution that are not provided as part of a loan. – In particular, the fee, usually calculated as a proportion (per thousand; count per thousand, percentage; percentage), charged by banks to customers when settling securities transactions. – Brokerage fee: the payment to the intermediary of a (financial) contract (the fee paid to a broker for executing a trade). – Also often equated with commission in the business press. – Bissig, hintergründig also said for bribe – See bank charges, disagio, fee, facility fee, deals, commission-based, fee, brokerage fee, price, premium, proxenetikum, shipowner’s money, roadshow, remuneration. – Cf. Deutsche Bundesbank Monthly Report of September 2007, p. 15 ff. (p. 29 ff.: many important data from the income statement and the statement of income and expenses of German banks since 2000, broken down by banking group; p. 32: commission expenses and commission income since 1999), Monthly Report of the Deutsche Bundesbank of September 2008, p. 17 ff. (update to 2007), Monthly Report of the Deutsche Bundesbank of September 2009, p. 37 ff. (update; many overviews), Annual Report 2012 of BaFin, p. 74 (new regulation for the commission of independent insurance agents).

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