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The last vestige of a bicameral mind. A work in progress, with 4,499 articles — yes, you read that right —and counting. Wanna get in touch? Ping me here.

Here you will find idiosyncratic views of master trading agreements, and their paraphernalia, organised into evolving Anatomy™ and Nutshell™ guides. These may be out of date, incomplete, flippant, utter rubbish or just not there when you need them. Just so you know.

Also we have a thing about plain English. And buzzwords, flannel, Latin, Greek, metaphor (a literary device sadly overlooked in legal documentation) and eggs.

Like The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, this site has many omissions and contains much that is apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate. Enter at your peril. (Yes, that's a disclaimer — lest the sky should fall in on my head, or yours.)

In brief

Anatomy™: AIFMD | CASS | COBS | Conference calls | Confis | CRR | CSA | EMIR | Equity Derivatives | FOA PCA | FUND | GMRA | GMSLA | ISDA | OSLA | PB | Swapclear | UCITS
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In the works

• At the moment: Articles I’m working on right now
• Next: Articles I keep meaning to get around to
• Done: Stuff that made it to LinkedIn (not counting the article on LinkedIn)
• Oddities: Little Easter eggs here and there

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