Template:Isda Automatic Early Termination comp

Redlines

• 1987 ⇒ 1992: Redline of the ’92 vs. the ’87: comparison (and in reverse)
• 1992 ⇒ 2002: Redline of the ’02 vs. the ’92: comparison (and in reverse)
• 1987 ⇒ 2002: Redline of the ’92 vs. the ’87: comparison (and in reverse)

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Discussion

{{{{{1}}}|Automatic Early Termination}} first appears as a named term in the 1992 ISDA. 1987 was still early doors in the life of the over-the-counter derivatives market — the first swap was only six years earlier, remember — and the Basel Committee murmurings about the capital risks posed by infinite leverage were only really just starting to take flight. Credit ISDA’s crack drafting squad™ that they even thought about it, but assuming every insolvency regime in the world would jeopardise contractual provisions the moment a formal bankruptcy was declared was probably overkill. Well, it was overkill. Definitely. Yet another reason people should not use a 1987 ISDA

In the 1992 ISDA the concept was given the name Automatic Early Termination, and was rendered as an electable option. Much more sensible. The language of {{{{{1}}}|6(a)}} did not change between the 1992 ISDA and the 2002 ISDA.