Template:M comp disc Equity Derivatives Transactions
A JC-curated sub-division of the General Definitions section. This bunch seem to us to hang together, so we’ve put them all together on one page.
1.1. Transaction
1.2. Option Transaction
1.3. Forward Transaction
1.4. Equity Swap Transaction
1.5. Index Transaction
1.6. Share Transaction
1.7. Index Basket Transaction
1.8. Share Basket Transaction
1.9. Basket Option Transaction
1.10. Basket Forward Transaction
1.11. Basket Swap Transaction
1.12. Confirmation
These first eleven paragraphs of the 2002 ISDA Equity Derivatives Definitions — twelve, if you include the Confirmations definition which doesn’t really belong anywhere else —set out all the types of Transaction you can have. These break down into:
And can be on a single Index or Share or a Basket of Indices or Shares. All are documented under Confirmations, though with the onset of Master Confirmation Agreements, synthetic prime brokerage and so on, these are no longer the old-fashioned epistles they once were.