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several ways this can be done, but the most usual measure is to determine how much it would cost for a party to enter into a
Transaction having commercial terms identical to the Terminated Transaction with an independent third party - this is called the Settlement Amount) and converted into the Termination Currency (which should have been specified in the schedule to the ISDA Master Agreement) and any outstanding Unpaid Amounts are taken into account. The Settlement Amounts (which may be positive or negative depending which party is 'in-the-money' with respect to a particular Terminated Transaction) and unpaid amounts (again positive or negative, depending on who owes them) are added up and a single figure in the Termination Currency is determined payable by one party or the other. The enforceability of the close-out netting provisions is absolutely vital to financial institutions active in the
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Scotland plc (RBS Greenwich?) and UBS AG as well as numerous national banks such as National Australia Bank Limited National Bank of Abu Dhabi National Bank of Canada National Bank of Greece National Bank Trust. Energy corporations listed include Centrica Energy Limited, Shell Energy North America (US), L.P. and Totsa Total Oil Trading S.A. The list of 296 associate members include TriOptima, IntercontinentalExchange, Inc., Standard & Poor's, Reuters, LCH.Clearnet Limited, Bloomberg Financial Markets, Deloitte LLP, Algorithmics, Inc., Markit Group Limited and MarkitSERV LLC.
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collateralization. While the dealer segment of the market is the largest and most systemically significant subset of market participants and has received a high degree of scrutiny and analysis in recent times, there is an interest in developing a similarly complete view of collateral in the wider market from a credit risk mitigant perspective. This review will facilitate the assessment of whether any systemic risks exist, and if so, whether any reforms to collateral practice should be implemented to address any such risk in any segment of the market.
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Intercontinental
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Section 6(e) of the ISDA Master Agreement. Pursuant to this section, when an ISDA Master Agreement (or, more accurately the outstanding Transactions under it) is terminated (normally following a credit event of some kind), the value of each of the Terminated Transactions is assessed (there are
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Services Authority on behalf of the international group of OTC derivative supervisors asked ISDA in October 2009 to conduct a broad market review of bilateral collateralization practices for OTC derivatives to facilitate better understanding of current
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since the ability to net allows them to allocate capital only against the net figure they would have to pay on close-out of an ISDA Master
Agreement rather than the gross amount. ISDA has obtained legal opinions from all important jurisdictions confirming the effectiveness of the close-out netting
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Glencore International AG, BP Plc, Koch Supply & Trading, LP, Citadel Securities LLC, Citigroup, Credit Suisse, Daewoo Securities Co., Ltd. investment banks such as Deutsche Bank AG, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Barclays Capital, Bank of America Merrill
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combined with a Schedule to set out the basic trading terms between the parties; each subsequent trade is then recorded in a Confirmation which references the Master Agreement and Schedule. The terms of the Schedule are often negotiated, and many firms have preferred versions of the Schedule.
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The objective of the review is to enable a more complete appreciation of the use of collateral as a credit risk mitigant across the diverse OTC derivative market, including (generically) the motivations, capabilities, limitations, and typical practices of market participants engaging in
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the amounts owing by each of them under all of the Transactions outstanding under that ISDA Master Agreement and replace them with a single net amount payable by one party to the other.
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