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There are great tales of worthy fellows around the market trying to tweak this provision because, by apparent oversight, it doesn't capture a failure to ''return'' {{gmslaprov|Equivalent}} (non cash) {{gmslaprov|Collateral}}.  
There are great tales of worthy fellows around the market trying to tweak this provision because, by apparent oversight, it doesn't capture a failure to ''return'' {{gmslaprov|Equivalent}} (non cash) {{gmslaprov|Collateral}}.  


But this may not be an accident, for the same reason a failure to redeliver {{gmslaprov|Equivalent}} {{gmslaprov|Securities}} isn't an {{gmslaprov|Event of Default}}. Indeed, it looks like a plainly deliberate omission. The drafters were careful to capture the payment or repayment of cash, and deliveries and ''further'' deliveries of Collateral, but not the return of Equivalent Collateral.  
But this is not an accident, for the same reason a failure to redeliver {{gmslaprov|Equivalent}} {{gmslaprov|Securities}} isn't an {{gmslaprov|Event of Default}}. Indeed, it is a plainly deliberate omission. The drafters were careful to capture the payment or repayment of cash, and deliveries and ''further'' deliveries of Collateral, but not the return of {{gmslaprov|Equivalent}} {{gmslaprov|Collateral}}.  


A counterparty may have on-lent, or on-collateralised, with non-cash {{gmslaprov|Collateral}} it has been posted. It may have exactly the same difficulties in getting hold of it to redeliver as a borrower may in getting hold of {{gmslaprov|Equivalent}} {{gmslaprov|Securities}}. So the rememedy is to withhold the return of securities, buy in and mini-close out under 9.2 which gives the aggrieved party equivalent rights, but not the right to close out the whole agreement (until there's a failure of the mini-close out settlement amount itself).
A counterparty may have on-lent, or on-collateralised, with non-cash {{gmslaprov|Collateral}} it has been posted. It may have exactly the same difficulties in getting hold of it to redeliver as a borrower may in getting hold of {{gmslaprov|Equivalent}} {{gmslaprov|Securities}}. So the remedy is to withhold the return of securities, buy in and {{isdaprov|mini close-out}} under {{gmslaprov|9.2}} which gives the aggrieved party equivalent rights, but not the right to close out the whole agreement (until there's a failure of the mini-close out settlement amount itself).


===GMSLA Equivalence===
===GMSLA Equivalence===

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Commentary


10.1(a) in a Nutshell (GMSLA edition)

10.1(a) Failure to Deliver: The failure, when required under Paragraph 5, of:
(i) either party to pay or repay Cash Collateral; or
(ii) the Borrower to deliver any other Collateral to the Lender;

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Commentary

There are great tales of worthy fellows around the market trying to tweak this provision because, by apparent oversight, it doesn't capture a failure to return Equivalent (non cash) Collateral.

But this is not an accident, for the same reason a failure to redeliver Equivalent Securities isn't an Event of Default. Indeed, it is a plainly deliberate omission. The drafters were careful to capture the payment or repayment of cash, and deliveries and further deliveries of Collateral, but not the return of Equivalent Collateral.

A counterparty may have on-lent, or on-collateralised, with non-cash Collateral it has been posted. It may have exactly the same difficulties in getting hold of it to redeliver as a borrower may in getting hold of Equivalent Securities. So the remedy is to withhold the return of securities, buy in and mini close-out under 9.2 which gives the aggrieved party equivalent rights, but not the right to close out the whole agreement (until there's a failure of the mini-close out settlement amount itself).

GMSLA Equivalence

Techy linguistic aside: Now here’s a funny thing. In the 2000 GMSLA, there were four defined terms relating to the Securities and Collateral that pass between the parties to a stock loan, all of them nouns:

But under the 2010 GMSLA, there are just three; two shorter nouns and an adjective:

This means you can move from the utterly tiring “Securities, Collateral, Equivalent Securities or Equivalent Collateral” which is fire-hosed throughout the 2000 GMSLA to the less offensive “Securities, Collateral or their Equivalents” in the 2010 GMSLA.[1]

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  1. Well,you could have, but the drafters didn’t.