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A bit of a historical artefact: At the time the ISDA’s crack drafting squad™ was labouring over the 2002 ISDA Equity Derivatives Definitions, the euro was a rather new fangled thing, and as such there are a number of provisions that have the air of skepticism about them that such a project could ever really work. After all, it is hard to see how a sovereign state could really control its fiscal policy without the levers of currency control and rate setting. But twenty years on, it all seems to have been a roaring success, so we needn’t have worried.

That said, there have been some wobbles, and given the succession of global disasters that have befallen us since that single stabilising force for the modern world, David Bowie, left us — you know, Brexit, the decline of America, global pandemic, hyperinflation, war in Europe — we should not be at all surprised if the Euro falls apart next, and may yet be grateful for the ’squad’s patient curlicues.