Default Interest; Other Amounts - 1992 ISDA Provision

2002 ISDA

There is no provision 2(e) in the 2002 ISDA. Default interest is instead calculated pursuant to Section 9(h)(ii)(2) (Interest and Compensation).

1992 ISDA

In gory detail

1992 ISDA 2(e) Default Interest; Other Amounts. Prior to the occurrence or effective designation of an Early Termination Date in respect of the relevant Transaction, a party that defaults in the performance of any payment obligation will, to the extent permitted by law and subject to Section 6(c), be required to pay interest (before as well as after judgment) on the overdue amount to the other party on demand in the same currency as such overdue amount, for the period from (and including) the original due date for payment to (but excluding) the date of actual payment, at the Default Rate. Such interest will be calculated on the basis of daily compounding and the actual number of days elapsed. If, prior to the occurrence or effective designation of an Early Termination Date in respect of the relevant Transaction, a party defaults in the performance of any obligation required to be settled by delivery, it will compensate the other party on demand if and to the extent provided for in the relevant Confirmation or elsewhere in this Agreement. (view template)

2002 ISDA 2(e) Condition End Date. (i) If an Event of Default occurs, the Defaulting Party may, by notice to the non-Defaulting Party identifying the Event of Default and confirming its occurrence, specify that clause (iii) will apply to that Event of Default. (ii) If a Potential Event of Default occurs with respect to a party, that party may, by notice to the other party identifying the Potential Event of Default and confirming its occurrence: (A) waive any requirement that notice be given or that any period of time elapse, by virtue of which waiver the Potential Event of Default will become an Event of Default; and (B) specify that clause (iii) will apply to that Event of Default. (iii) If this clause (iii) applies to an Event of Default, then the condition precedent specified in Section 2(a)(iii)(1) with respect to that Event of Default will cease to be a condition precedent to each obligation of the non-Defaulting Party on the relevant Condition End Date. Any obligation that would have been payable or deliverable by the non-Defaulting Party but for Section 2(a)(iii)(1) will become payable or deliverable on the first Local Business Day falling after the Condition End Date (together with interest payable on demand in accordance with Section 9(h)(i)(3)(A) or compensation and interest payable on demand in accordance with Section 9(h)(i)(4)(A), as the case may be). (iv) Subject to clause 2(e)(v) below, if, after a party has given a notice under clause (i) or (ii) above with respect to an Event of Default or Potential Event of Default, another Event of Default or Potential Event of Default occurs with respect to that party, then, with respect to the earlier Event of Default, no Condition End Date will occur and therefore clause (iii) will not apply. This will not affect the right of that party to give a notice under clause (i) in respect of the subsequent Event of Default or under clause (ii) in respect of the subsequent Potential Event of Default. This clause (iv) is without prejudice to the right of the Defaulting Party to give a new notice to the non-Defaulting Party under clause (i) with respect to the earlier Event of Default. (v) If the Defaulting Party has given a notice under clause (i) above in respect of an Event of Default under Section 5(a)(vii), then clause (iv) will not apply.” Section 14 of the Agreement is amended to add in the appropriate alphabetical position a new definition of “Condition End Date”, reading in its entirety as follows: “Condition End Date” means, with respect to an Event of Default, the day falling 90 days after a notice given by the Defaulting Party under Section 2(e)(i) or Section 2(e)(ii) is effective if the Event of Default is still continuing on that day.” (view template)

ISDA Section 2(a)(iii) Protocol

This provision of the 1992 ISDA would be brought into line with the 2002 ISDA provision relating to Interest and Compensation under the current Protocol wording. For more information please see the commentary around Section 2(a)(iii).