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- 10:24, 30 September 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs uploaded File:Discretion and compulsion.jpeg
- 17:11, 29 September 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Talk:Discretion (Created page with "Well, let the JC tell you a cautionary tale. ===A cautionary tale=== As well as lending on margin, a prime broker runs banking services for its customers, who may deposit cash with the prime broker in excess of its formal contractual margin requirements. As with any other deposit accounts, a client may ask for its money — in excess of its margin requirement — at any time. To allow themselves a degree of operational flexibility, p...") Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- 14:16, 29 September 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs moved page The Moorcock to The Moorcock - Case Note
- 14:07, 29 September 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page The Moorcock (Created page with "{{a|jclr|}}Plaintiff ship-owners contracted with the defendant wharf owner to discharge a ship at their jetty on a tidal stretch of the River Thames where, at low tide, boats would regularly ground. The defendants had no rights or control over the river-bed, took no steps to determine whether it was safe and, at low tide, the Moorcock’s hull was damaged upon grounding. The plaintiffs claimed for breach of contract, seeking to imply a term that the river bed was safe....")
- 15:40, 28 September 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:Viniarquote (Created page with "“We were seeing things that were 25-standard deviation moves, several days in a row.”")
- 16:20, 27 September 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs moved page Who says...? to Who says
- 12:05, 27 September 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page File:Nighthawk santa.jpg
- 12:05, 27 September 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs uploaded File:Nighthawk santa.jpg
- 11:43, 27 September 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs moved page Who said? to Who says...?
- 08:41, 27 September 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page File:Port and Stilton.png
- 08:41, 27 September 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs uploaded File:Port and Stilton.png
- 07:34, 27 September 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Who said? (Created page with "A page given over to occasional gems from the advertising industry. If the premise is that advertising should distract an audience’s attention from perceived a product’s shortcomings and not draw its attention to them, any advertisement that starts with the rhetorical, “who said that...” is getting things profoundly wrong. The classic case, the JC recalls from the Stilton Marketing Board poster in the tube a few years ago, was along these lines: {{quote|“Who...")
- 15:58, 25 September 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs moved page Survival to Survival of obligations
- 15:57, 25 September 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Survival (Created page with "{{a|boilerplate|}}A boilerplate term that nominates certain provisions of the agreement that are deemed to carry on notwithstanding the end of the Agreement itself. In most cases survival of obligations clauses result from a misconception about how damages work in a contract and are, as such, a sort of category error. The thing is: when you terminate a contract, or it comes to its natural end, it is not wiped from the horizon with a Nietzschean sponge — it i...") Tag: Visual edit: Switched
- 12:44, 24 September 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page ABS field guide (Redirected page to Asset-backed securities field guide) Tag: New redirect
- 12:36, 24 September 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:M nav DCUKE 2005 (Created page with "{{M nav 2005 DCUKE}}")
- 12:36, 24 September 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:M res DCUKE 2005 (Created page with "{{M res 2005 DCUKE}}")
- 12:35, 24 September 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:UKA Annex TOC (Created page with "Part [•]. '''{{ukaprov|UK Emissions Allowance Transactions}}''' <br> {{ukaprov|(a)}} '''{{ukaprov|Scope}}''' <br> {{ukaprov|(b)}} '''{{ukaprov|ISDA Definitions}}''' <br> {{ukaprov|(c)}} '''{{ukaprov|Multiple Delivery Dates}}''' <br> {{ukaprov|(d)}} '''{{ukaprov|Terms}}''' <br> :{{ukaprov|(d)(i)}} {{ukaprov|Physical Settlement}} ::{{ukaprov|(d)(i)(1)}} {{ukaprov|Settlement}} ::{{ukaprov|(d)(i)(2)}} {{ukaprov|Delivery}} ::{{ukaprov|(d)(i)(3)}} {{ukaprov|Netting}} ::{{uka...")
- 12:33, 24 September 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:Ukamanual (Created page with "{{subst:euamanual}}")
- 12:33, 24 September 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page UK emissions allowance (Created page with "{{ukamanual|UK emissions allowances}} Part [•]. '''{{ukaprov|UK Emissions Allowance Transactions}}''' <br> {{ukaprov|(a)}} '''{{ukaprov|Scope}}''' <br> {{ukaprov|(b)}} '''{{ukaprov|ISDA Definitions}}''' <br> {{ukaprov|(c)}} '''{{ukaprov|Multiple Delivery Dates}}''' <br> {{ukaprov|(d)}} '''{{ukaprov|Terms}}''' <br> :{{ukaprov|(d)(i)}} {{ukaprov|Physical Settlement}} ::{{ukaprov|(d)(i)(1)}} {{ukaprov|Settlement}} ::{{ukaprov|(d)(i)(2)}} {{ukaprov|Delivery}} ::{{ukaprov|(...")
- 12:16, 24 September 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:M sa repack ABS field guide (Created page with "*Repackaging *Credit-linked note *Financial weapons of mass destruction Top Trumps")
- 18:45, 23 September 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:M premium summary repack ABS field guide (Created page with "*Challenges “across the bridge” *How repackaging fits into all of this")
- 18:44, 23 September 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:Repack (Created page with "Repack")
- 18:41, 23 September 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:M intro repack ABS field guide (Created page with "=== Transformation === Financial services are not immune to the civilisational sweep of the information revolution. As the consumer world glommed onto digital watches, space invaders calculators, Donkey Kong and the graphic user interface so was the banking world being rocked by a Cambrian explosion of sophisticated financial engineering. Swaps, securitisations and investment management mushroomed in the nineteen-eighties. The revolution was, at first, curious...")
- 15:34, 23 September 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:Redemption of emissions allowances (Created page with "Emissions allowances are funny things in that they are redeemed against discharge of an obligation to pay the penalty that arises if you discharge carbon and ''don’t'' redeem them, but that penalty is oddly never payable as long as you ''do'' redeem them. There is some weird ontological cart-and-horse magic going on here, so it is best not to think to hard about it.")
- 15:32, 23 September 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Redeem (Created page with "{{a|banking|}}{{dpn|/rɪˈdiːm/|n|}}O a financial instrument, to surrender it for cancellation against payment, delivery or some other abstract benefit, such as the discharge of a liability. ====Debt securities==== Most debt securities are redeemed against payment of their face value — or some other specified amount — on a specified redemption date. ====Emissions allowances==== {{redemption of emissions allowances}}")
- 10:16, 23 September 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Category:Regulatory derivatives (Created page with "{{c|derivatives}}")
- 10:16, 23 September 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Regulatory derivative (Created page with "{{a|isda|}}{{dpn|/ˌrɛɡjəˈleɪtᵊri/ /dɪˈrɪvətɪv/|n}}A financial instrument whose payoff derives from the existence, or otherwise, of given laws or regulations. Quite a weird concept, but the emissions allowance is one such financial instrument. Its value derives solely from the attitude towards the law of regulators. {{sa}} *Emissions Anatomy {{c|derivatives}}")
- 21:27, 22 September 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page There’s no machine for judging poetry (Redirected page to There is no machine for judging poetry) Tags: New redirect Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- 21:24, 22 September 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Life is not a fucking competition (Redirected page to It’s not a fucking competition) Tags: New redirect Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- 21:23, 22 September 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page It’s not a fucking competition (Created page with "{{a|maxim|}}There are ''eight billion'' people in the world. if you think you are in a competition with them, ''you will lose''. If you don't believe that, learn some statistics. Only people who are in a competition try to be like someone else. So don’t be in. Competition . ''Life is not a fucking competition''.The key is to be ''unique''. Go off piste. Find a furrow no-one cares about but you, and plough the hell out of it. Forget your rank. ''Find your nich...") Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- 14:50, 22 September 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs moved page As soon as reasonably practicable to Promptly
- 08:55, 22 September 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Ring fencing (Redirected page to Limited recourse) Tag: New redirect
- 08:42, 22 September 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Vogon (Redirected page to Security trustee) Tag: New redirect
- 08:42, 22 September 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Payment of liabilities (Redirected page to Liability) Tag: New redirect
- 08:34, 22 September 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:Security trustees as vogons (Created page with "Security trustees are inert bodies at the best of times, but are especially so when it comes to repackagings. They are like Vogons. They would not, as Douglas Adams once put it (about Vogons) {{quote|“... even lift a finger to save their own grandmothers from the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal without orders signed in triplicate, sent in, sent back, queried, lost, found, subjected to public inquiry, lost again, and finally...")
- 14:46, 21 September 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Withholding or deduction (Redirected page to Deduction or withholding) Tag: New redirect
- 14:45, 21 September 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page For or on account of (Redirected page to Deduction or withholding) Tag: New redirect
- 14:43, 21 September 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:Isda 2(d) summ (Created page with "{{subst:M summ 2002 ISDA 2(d)}}")
- 14:42, 21 September 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:M summ 1992 ISDA 2(d) (Created page with "{{M summ 2002 ISDA 2(d)}}")
- 14:38, 21 September 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Deduction or withholding (Created page with "{{a|contract|}}{{withholding and deduction pedantry}}")
- 14:37, 21 September 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:Withholding and deduction pedantry (Created page with "Happy news, readers: we have a report from the front lines in the battle between substance and form. The JC asked no lesser a tax ninja than {{plainlink|https://twitter.com/DanNeidle|Dan Neidle}} — quietly, the JC is a bit of a fan — the following question: {{quote|In the statement, “X may make a deduction or withholding from any payment for or on account of any tax” is there any difference between...")
- 08:39, 21 September 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Pimco van der Sark (Redirected page to Havid Dilbert) Tags: New redirect Visual edit: Switched
- 13:53, 20 September 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:M premium 1992 ISDA 8 (Created page with "M premium 2002 ISDA 8")
- 13:23, 20 September 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:M sa 1992 ISDA 8 (Created page with "*Currency indemnity *Indemnity")
- 11:33, 20 September 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:M sa repack currency indemnity (Created page with "*{{isdaprov|Contractual Currency}} in the {{2002ma}} *Indemnity")
- 11:32, 20 September 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:M intro repack currency indemnity (Created page with "{{d|Currency indemnity|/ˈkʌrᵊnsi ɪnˈdɛmnəti/|n|}} A boilerplate term committing the parties to a loan to pay, or repay, a shortfall or excess arising as a result of the debtor repaying any part of the loan in the wrong currency. {{Currency indemnity capsule}}")
- 11:29, 20 September 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Currency indemnity (Created page with "{{essay|repack|currency indemnity|}}")
- 11:28, 20 September 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:Currency indemnity capsule (Created page with "A currency indemnity is a part of the boilerplate that is so deeply entrenched, — that passeth so much understanding — that generations of legal eagles have just abided by it, never asking what it is or why it is there. It just ''is''. You will find them in ISDAs, loans, bonds, repacks. They are sprayed wordily over all kinds of financial instrument, comfy textual furniture to make it all seem serious and important. So if you are in a hurry, stop there: it is f...")
- 10:54, 20 September 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:Isda 8 summ (Created page with "This is what, in the bond world, they call a currency indemnity. It is a part of the boilerplate that is so entrenched, and passeth all understanding, that people seldom ask what it is for ot why it is there. Certainly, do not expect much by way of negotiation on the point, but for the little it is worth, this is what it is all about. Say I borrow from you in in euros. Being an OG in the international capital markets, my business will truck in incomings in all s...")