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- 22:58, 14 January 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Promotion at random (Created page with "{{a|work|}}Reality TV competitions, like BBC’s Traitors and Netflix’s Squid Games offer an interesting insight into group dynamics. They pit competitors against each other in a game of competition of ostensible strategy, but where the competitors know only general objectives ahead of time (survive to the end to win the game) but not specific rules (the nature or success criteria of the challenges and tasks they will face) and some of these rules are disclosed late, n...") Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- 15:44, 14 January 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page File:Lissingdown.jpg
- 15:44, 14 January 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs uploaded File:Lissingdown.jpg
- 10:56, 14 January 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs moved page Template:M intro 2002 ISDA US tax complex to Template:M intro isda US tax complex
- 18:41, 13 January 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:M sa isda ISDA purpose (Created page with "*Qualities of a good ISDA")
- 18:40, 13 January 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:M sa isda qualities of a good ISDA (Created page with "*The purpose of an ISDA")
- 18:40, 13 January 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:M intro isda qualities of a good ISDA (Created page with "=== Clear === The many purposes of the ISDA, most deal with the present (such as the availability of netting) or the past (reps, warranties and conditions to transacting), but only one deals with the future. The credit terms. These will only come into serious contemplation at times of extreme stress. The market’s, your management’s and yours. The more the firm stands to lose, the more extreme circumstances are likely to be. Your management will certainly be going ma...")
- 18:39, 13 January 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Qualities of a good ISDA (Created page with "{{freeessay|isda|qualities of a good ISDA|}}")
- 12:19, 13 January 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Hindrance (Redirected page to Easance) Tag: New redirect
- 12:16, 13 January 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Easance (Created page with "{{a|work|}}{{d|Easance|/iːzˈᵊns/|n|}}A JC-own coinage — if Taleb can do this, I don’t see why I can’t — meaning the opposite of a hindrance. Something — a tool, a technique, a convention, a consensus — designed to take away faff, defeat jobsworths, eliminate pettifoggery with ''form'' at the expense of substance. The {{isdama}} is — well, started out life as — an easance. But here is the thing: it is in the nature of the entropic unive...") Tag: Visual edit: Switched
- 11:03, 13 January 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page File:Field guide.jpg
- 11:03, 13 January 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs uploaded File:Field guide.jpg
- 10:16, 12 January 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Time is money (Created page with "{{a|metaphor|}}{{quote|“Remember that time is money. He that can earn ten shillings a day by his labour, and goes abroad, or sits idle one half of that day, though he spends but sixpence during his diversion or idleness, it ought not to be reckoned the only expence; he hath really spent or thrown away five shillings besides.” :— Benjamin Franklin, ''Advice to a Young Tradesman''}}")
- 09:35, 12 January 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs moved page The purpose of an ISDA Master Agreement to The purpose of an ISDA
- 09:35, 12 January 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page ISDA: Dawn of the Dead (Created page with "{{a|fifi|}}{{quote|“He — I mean ''it'' — then disappeared again, but is rumoured to have been long cultivating an undead army of phantom ISDAs who lie upon the dead earth as spores, and the prophecies of the Good Man make plain will, in a sign of the forthcoming day of summary judgment, once again rise up and lay unholy waste to the Godless capital markets of the world.”}} Tract from {{Otto}}’s dreary gothic novel that is said to be the inspiration for M...")
- 08:25, 12 January 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Counterparties (Redirected page to Party A and Party B) Tags: New redirect Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- 14:06, 11 January 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page File:Huey.jpg
- 14:06, 11 January 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs uploaded File:Huey.jpg
- 13:37, 11 January 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs moved page Your brand is a vitamin or a painkiller to Vitamins and painkillers
- 17:25, 10 January 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Your brand is a vitamin or a painkiller (Created page with "{{a|shitmaxim|}}The theory goes, so say any number of thought-pieces, that there are three kinds of business: {{l1}} '''Painkillers''': Those who address acute immediate problems<li> '''Vitamins''': Those prevent future problems in the long term: <li> '''Candy''': Those that distract us from our daily existential horror of what the doctor is about to do to us. This seems to us to miss some important categories of medicinal function. Such as curing pr...") Tag: Visual edit: Switched
- 16:03, 9 January 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page MediaWiki talk:Common.css (Created page with "'''blah blah blah'''. blah blah blah: {{l1}}'''Level 1''': blah blah blah;<li> '''blah blah blah''': blah blah blahblah blah blahblah blah blahblah blah blahblah blah blahblah blah blah;<li>'''Composition''': makes a composition with its creditors;<li> '''blah blah blah''': blah blah blahblah blah blahblah blah blahblah blah blah: {{L2}} blah blah blahblah blah blahblah blah blahblah blah blahblah blah blahblah blah blahblah blah blahblah blah blah; or<li> blah blah bla...")
- 14:37, 9 January 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:M tldr work Large Learning Model (Created page with "Law firms are going to be wiped out by chatbots: here is how — but people have been saying this for years — is this time different? — 1. consider: who always benefits ''first'' from new legal tools? lawyers — historically have lawyers ever used legal tools to simplify what they do? NO — 2. the effective practice of law as a simplification defeat device — 3. The client: on big deals, the clients are usually lawyers too — when they are, has either any interes...")
- 11:01, 9 January 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Talk:Paragraph numbering (Created page with "<ol class="L1"> '''Bankruptcy'''. A party: {{l1}}'''Dissolved''': is dissolved (other than by merger);<li> '''Insolvent''': becomes insolvent, unable to pay its debts, or admits it in writing;<li>'''Composition''': makes a composition with its creditors;<li> '''Proceedings''': suffers insolvency proceedings instituted by: {{L2}} a regulator; or<li> anyone other than a regulator, and {{L3}} it results in a winding up order; or <li> those proceedings are not discharged wi...")
- 10:18, 8 January 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs moved page Tail events to Tail event
- 10:11, 8 January 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Effable (Created page with "{{a|plainenglish|}}{{d|ineffable|/ɪnˈɛfəbl/|adj|}} Able to be adequately expressed in words. Determinable. Fully explicable with known concepts. Compare with ''ineffable''.") Tag: Visual edit: Switched
- 19:27, 6 January 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:ISDA Master Agreement 1992 Defaulting Party and Affected Party (Created page with "{{subst:ISDA Master Agreement 2002 Defaulting Party and Affected Party}}")
- 19:26, 6 January 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Defaulting Party and Affected Party - 1992 ISDA Provision (Created page with "{{newisda92manual|Defaulting Party and Affected Party}}")
- 19:25, 6 January 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:Isda Defaulting Party sa (Created page with "*The fictional ISDA term “{{{{{1}}}|Innocent Party}}”")
- 19:25, 6 January 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:Isda Defaulting Party and Affected Party premium (Created page with "*The many different ways in which a Termination Event (starring one or more Affected Parties) and a Event of Default (starring a single Defaulting Party) differ, and how you should think about them.")
- 19:24, 6 January 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:Isda Defaulting Party summ (Created page with "The key thing to notice here is that — in an uncharacteristically rather neat, understated bit of drafting — Defaulting Party encapsulates a party who has itself defaulted, or whose {{{{{1}}}|Credit Support Provider}} or {{{{{1}}}|Specified Entity}} has committed an act which amounts to an {{{{{1}}}|Event of Default}} for that counterparty to this {{isdama}}. I know, I know, this doesn’t seem that big of a deal: this sort of thing that should be plain, obvious and...")
- 19:23, 6 January 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:Isda Non-defaulting Party summ (Created page with "To be compared with - well, {{{{{1}}}|Defaulting Party}}. Of all things. And {{{{{1}}}|Non-affected Party}}, as well. The difference between a {{{{{1}}}|Non-defaulting Party}} and a {{{{{1}}}|Non-affected Party}}, and the linguistic torture that distinction as inflicted on the race of ISDA lawyers ever since, says everything you need to know about the absurdity of modern commercial law. *''Do say'': “the {{{{{1}}}|Non-defaulting Party}} or {{{{{1}}}|the non-Affected P...")
- 19:21, 6 January 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:Isda Defaulting Party and Affected Party summ (Created page with "====Defaulting Party==== {{subst:M summ 2002 ISDA Defaulting Party}} ====Non-defaulting Party==== {{subst:M summ 2002 ISDA Non-defaulting Party}} ====Affected Party and Non-Affected Party==== {{subst:M summ 2002 ISDA Affected Party}}")
- 19:20, 6 January 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:Isda Defaulting Party and Affected Party comp (Created page with "====Defaulting Party and Non-defaulting Party==== {{subst:M comp disc 2002 ISDA Defaulting Party}} ====Affected Party and Non-Affected Party==== {{subst:M comp disc 2002 ISDA Affected Party}}")
- 19:16, 6 January 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:Isda 2(d) premium (Created page with "{{subst:M premium 2002 ISDA 2(d)}}")
- 18:58, 6 January 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:Isda 6(f) sa (Created page with "*Set-off generally *Settlement netting")
- 18:57, 6 January 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:Isda 6(f) premium (Created page with "*A red letter day for the ’Squad *Scope of set-off *Cross-affiliate set-off *A critique of the standard cross-affiliate set-off wording *Our suggestion for you to use at your own risk")
- 18:56, 6 January 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:Isda 6(f) summ (Created page with "{{set off capsule}} ====A bit of a bish in the {{2002ma}}==== Set-off in the {{2002ma}} borrows from the text used to build it into the {{1992ma}} but still contains a rather elementary fluff-up: it imagines a world like our own, but where the {{{{{1}}}|Early Termination Amount}} is payable one way, while ''all'' {{{{{1}}}|Other Amounts}} are only payable the other. Life, as any fule kno, is not always quite that convenient. For example: {{subtableflex|47| {{{{{1}}}...")
- 18:34, 6 January 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:L4 (Created page with "<ol class='lower-roman'>")
- 18:34, 6 January 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:L3 (Created page with "<ol class='lower-alpha'>")
- 18:33, 6 January 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:L2 (Created page with "<ol class='doubledecimal'>")
- 18:33, 6 January 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:L1 (Created page with "<ol class='decimal'>")
- 09:39, 6 January 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:Isda 6(f) comp (Created page with "The {{1992isda}} does not have a specific set-off provision, although it manages to define {{isda92prov|Set-off}} anyway. ISDA published a ''suggested'' set-off provision in the 1992 User’s Guide but no-one liked it, and before long several home-made versions were percolating around the market. These often permitted set-off between the {{{{{1}}}|Innocent Party}}’s '''{{{{{1}}}|Affiliate}}s''' and the non-performing party. {{icds}} got the hint and impl...")
- 09:30, 6 January 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:Isda92prov Section 14 TOC (Created page with "{{ISDA 1992 Section 14 TOC}}")
- 09:29, 6 January 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page 14 - 1992 ISDA Provision (Redirected page to Definitions - 1992 ISDA Provision) Tag: New redirect
- 09:28, 6 January 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:Isda 14 sa (Created page with "*Definitions: boon or bane. An essay about the pros and cons of defining things.")
- 09:26, 6 January 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:Isdaprov Section 14 TOC (Created page with "{{ISDA 2002 Section 14 TOC}}")
- 09:24, 6 January 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:Isda 14 premium (Created page with "*If we laid it all out here, we’d be here all day. Click on the individual definitions to the right to get all the details you could ask for. (And there is a lot more {{premium}} on the premium JC, as you can imagine).")
- 19:16, 5 January 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:Isda Specified Transaction sa (Created page with "*Failure to Pay, DUST and Cross Default under the ISDA *{{{{{1}}}|Default under Specified Transaction}}")
- 19:15, 5 January 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:Isda Specified Transaction premium (Created page with "*Fiddler ahoy! Great opportunities for members of the credit department to “add value” *The odd cognitive dissonance between DUST and Cross Default")
- 19:14, 5 January 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:Isda Specified Transaction summ (Created page with "Used in the {{{{{1}}}|Default under Specified Transaction}} {{{{{1}}}|Event of Default}} under Section {{{{{1}}}|5(a)(v)}} — fondly known to those in the know as “{{{{{1}}}|DUST}}”. ====What?==== {{{{{1}}}|Specified Transaction}}s are those financial markets transactions between you and your counterparty ''other than those under the present {{isdama}}'', default under which justifies the wronged party closing out the pres...")