2002 ISDA Equity Derivatives Definitions
If you are looking for literature to broaden your earthly perspective, or shine a torch into the dark crevices of the human condition, the 2002 ISDA Equity Derivatives Definitions might not be the first volume you would pull off the shelf, but in its own way, in its Escheresque self-referencing reflexivity, it affords us an oblique perspective on the motivations of those who operate in the strange demi-monde of the international capital markets.
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Equity Derivatives Anatomy™
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Commonplaces of the sort any mug knows instinctively without needing to be told are said, said, and said again; abstrusities about which even the cognoscenti might like more elucidation — like what counts as a “Dividend” — are left tantalisingly under-determined. Some parts — the calculation of Dividend Amount — just don’t work at all, so the market has resorted to its own organic means of resolution (the JC has its own suggestions, too — see here).
Article 1. Certain General Definitions
Article 2. General Terms Relating to Option Transactions
Article 3. Exercise of Options
Article 4. General Terms Relating to Forward Transactions
Article 5. General Terms Relating to Equity Swap Transactions
Article 6. Valuation
Article 7. General Terms Relating to Settlement
Article 8. Cash Settlement
Article 9. Physical Settlement
Article 10. Dividends
Article 11. Adjustments and Modifications Affecting Indices, Shares and Transactions
Article 12. Extraordinary Events
Article 13. Miscellaneous
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