Termination Rate - ISDA Provision

2002 ISDA Master Agreement A Jolly Contrarian owner’s manual™ Termination Rate in a Nutshell™ The JC’s Nutshell™ summary of this term has moved uptown to the subscription-only ninja tier. For the cost of ½ a weekly 🍺 you can get it here. Sign up at Substack. You can even ask questions! Ask about it here. Termination Rate in all its glory “Termination Rate” means a rate per annum equal to the arithmetic mean of the cost (without proof or evidence of any actual cost) to each party (as certified by such party) if it were to fund or of funding such amounts. edit Related agreements and comparisons Click here for the text of Section Termination Rate in the 1992 ISDA Template:Isdadiff Termination Rate Resources and Navigation This provision in the 1992 Resources Wikitext | Nutshell wikitext | 1992 ISDA wikitext | 2002 vs 1992 Showdown | 2006 ISDA Definitions | 2008 ISDA | JC’s ISDA code project Navigation Preamble | 1 • (a) (b) (c) | 2 • (a) (b) (c) (d) | 3 • (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (f) (g) | 4 • (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) | 5 • 5(a) Events of Default: 5(a)(i) Failure to Pay or Deliver 5(a)(ii) Breach of Agreement 5(a)(iii) Credit Support Default 5(a)(iv) Misrepresentation 5(a)(v) Default Under Specified Transaction 5(a)(vi) Cross Default 5(a)(vii) Bankruptcy 5(a)(viii) Merger Without Assumption 5(b) Termination Events: 5(b)(i) Illegality 5(b)(ii) Force Majeure Event 5(b)(iii) Tax Event 5(b)(iv) Tax Event Upon Merger 5(b)(v) Credit Event Upon Merger 5(b)(vi) Additional Termination Event (c) (d) (e) | 6 • (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (f) | 7 | 8 • (a) (b) (c) (d) | 9 • (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (f) (g) (h) | 10 | 11 | 12 • (a) (b) | 13 • (a) (b) (c) (d) | 14 | Index: Click ᐅ to expand: 2002 ISDA 1992 ISDA Premium version of this page

Overview

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Just one of the four different defined terms relating to interest rate determinations in the ISDA Master Agreement. The weren’t going to leave anything to chance, those ninjas.

Summary

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Ballast, in a word: Termination Rate is an expression which features but once in the ISDA Master Agreement — it is the fallback interest rate to apply to Early Termination Amounts, when all other methods haven’t worked, to accrue interest between determination and payment — and which, as you’ll see, amounts to the party’s own cross-my-heart-and-hope-to-die-but-I’m-still-not-going-to-justify-it cost of borrowing in the market.

Which scarcely would deserve a definition even if it was used repeatedly through the whole agreement.

In any case, since on your own theory of the game, your counterparty is almost certainly a dead parrot at this point, spending too much time agonising about how much interest you can claim from it on a Close-out Amount you are not going to get paid in any case is hardly one of the better uses of its — or your, for that matter — remaining time on this mortal coil.

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See also

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• Applicable Close-out Rate
• Non-default Rate
• Default Rate