Delivery obligations to be reciprocal - GMSLA Provision

GMSLA Anatomy™ Go Premium In a Nutshell™ Clause 8.6: 8.6 Delivery obligations to be reciprocal: Neither Party has to pay or deliver anything unless it is satisfied that the other Party will make the corresponding payment or delivery to it. If it is not, as long as it is willing and able to perform its own obligations it may, by notice to the other Party, withhold delivery or payment until the other Party has made sufficient arrangements to assure full delivery or payment. view template 2010 GMSLA full text of Clause 8.6: 8.6 Delivery obligations to be reciprocal Neither Party shall be obliged to make delivery (or make a payment as the case may be) to the other unless it is satisfied that the other Party will make such delivery (or make an appropriate payment as the case may be) to it. If it is not so satisfied (whether because an Event of Default has occurred in respect of the other Party or otherwise) it shall notify the other Party and unless that other Party has made arrangements which are sufficient to assure full delivery (or the appropriate payment as the case may be) to the notifying Party, the notifying Party shall (provided it is itself in a position, and willing, to perform its own obligations) be entitled to withhold delivery (or payment, as the case may be) to the other Party until such arrangements to assure full delivery (or the appropriate payment as the case may be) are made. view template 2010 GMSLA: Full wikitext · Nutshell wikitext | GMLSA legal code | GMSLA Netting Pledge GMSLA: Hard copy (ISLA) · Full wikitext · Nutshell wikitext | 1995 OSLA: OSLA wikitext | OSLA in a nutshell | GMSLA/PGMSLA/OSLA clause comparison table From Our Friends On The Internet: Guide to equity finance | ISLA’s guide to securities lending for regulators and policy makers Navigation 2010 GMSLA 1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 · 6 · 7 · 8 · 9 · 10 · 11 · 12 · 13 · 14 · 15 · 16 · 17 · 18 · 19 · 20 · 21 · 22 · 23 · 24 · 25 · 26 · 27 · Schedule · Agency Annex · Addendum for Pooled Principal Agency Loans 2018 Pledge GMSLA 1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 · 6 · 7 · 8 · 9 · 10 · 11 · 12 · 13 · 14 · 15 · 16 · 17 · 18 · 19 · 20 · 21 · 22 · 23 · 24 · 25 · 26 · 27 · 28 · Schedule · Agency Annex Stock lending agreement comparison: Includes navigation for the 2000 GMSLA and the 1995 OSLA Index: Click ᐅ to expand: GMSLA Pledge GMSLA OSLA Comments? Questions? Suggestions? Requests? Insults? We’d love to 📧 hear from you. Sign up for our newsletter.

This provision allows a Counterparty to suspend payments or deliveries pending satisfactory arrangements where it is concerned as to the creditworthiness of its counterparty. It is a half-arsed version of the ISDA Master Agreement’s feted Section 2(a)(iii).

Otherwise a creditworthy Borrower would be obliged to redeliver Equivalent Securities to a bankrupt Lender even though it did not expect to receive its Equivalent Collateral back, which would prejudice its ability to effect a mini close-out and set off its obligation to deliver Equivalent Securities against that Collateral return.

It's kind of weird, loosey goosey language:

“If I think you're bust and I don't want to pay, I don't have to, unless I couldn't pay or didn't want to pay, in which case I have to pay.”

Consult the circular logicians to pick your way out of that one.

See also

• Flawed asset
• Section 2(a)(iii) of the ISDA Master Agreement