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Interest and accruals

While the definitions provide that the Equity Amount Payer must manufacture Dividend Amounts on the Cash Settlement Payment Date, (typically at the end of a Dividend Period) and therefore structures in a period between receipt of underlying and payment on the swap, the definitions do not provide for any interest accrual over that period.

In practice, users tend to “pay when paid”, settling Dividend Amounts the business day following receipt on the underlying, notwithstanding the text of the 2002 ISDA Equity Derivatives Definitions. No-one complains about this. Indeed, we imagine no-one is any the wiser. If you are anything like the JC, you will quietly wonder why we bother negotiating contracts in the first place, if operations personnel are just going to ignore them in practice. If you are an operations person, you may quietly wonder exactly the same thing.