Template:Extraordinary events capsule
Break these “Extraordinary Events” into four categories:
- Corporate actions on Issuers: (generally) benign but unscheduled matters of corporate structure concerning the management of specific underlying Shares, that change the economic proposition represented by those Shares, and not the equity derivative contract. So: Merger Events and Tender Offers;
- Index adjustments: Equivalent measures that relate to an underlying Index - collectively Index Adjustment Events. So:
- Index Modification: Changes in the calculation methodology for the Index
- Index Cancellation: Where Indexes are discontinued with replacement;
- Index Disruption: disruption in the calculation and publication of Index values;
- Negative events affecting Issuers: Nationalizations, Insolvency, Delisting of underlying Issuers;
- Transaction disruption: These “Additional Disruption Events” often crossover with market- and Issuer-dependent events above, but the emphasis here is the direct impact on the parties’ abilities to perform and hedge the derivative Transaction itself. So:
- The Triple Cocktail: The Triple Cocktail of Change in Law, Hedging Disruption and Increased Cost of Hedging;
- Stock borrow events: Specific issues relating to short-selling (Loss of Stock Borrow and Increased Cost of Stock Borrow); and
- Random ones that aren’t needed or used: Two random ones that don’t brilliantly fit with this theory, and which people tend to disapply — possibly for that exact reason, but they are fairly well covered by the Triple Cocktail anyway — Failure to Deliver under the Transaction on account of illiquidity and, even more randomly, Insolvency Filing<ref>especially since there is already an “Insolvency” event covering most of this).