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• 11:12, 13 October 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:2002 ISDA Equity Derivatives Definitions Partial Cancellation and Payment (Created page with "{{eqderivprov|12.2}} '''{{eqderivprov|Consequences of Merger Events}}'''<br> {{2002 ISDA Equity Derivatives Definitions 12.2(f)}} ---- {{eqderivprov|12.3}} '''{{eqderivprov|Consequences of Tender Offers}}'''<br> {{2002 ISDA Equity Derivatives Definitions 12.3(e)}} ---- {{eqderivprov|12.6(c)}} '''{{eqderivprov|Nationalization, Insolvency and Delisting}}'''<br> {{2002 ISDA Equity Derivatives Definitions 12.6(c)(iii)}} ---- {{2002 ISDA Equity Derivatives Definitions 12.7(a)}}")
• 11:02, 13 October 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs deleted page Template:Triplecocktail (content was: "==={{tag|Triple Cocktail}} — a trilogy in five parts=== Should a {{eqderivprov|Hedging Party}} have trouble hedging an equity derivative the {{eqdefs}} contain a “{{eqderivprov|triple cocktail}}” of protections: *'''{{eqderivprov|Change in Law}}''': due to a change in law after {{eqderivprov|Trade Date}} it becomes (a) flat-out illegal ''[or (b) materi...", and the only contributor was "Amwelladmin" (talk))
• 11:02, 13 October 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs deleted page Template:Triple cocktail (content was: "#REDIRECT Template:Triplecocktail", and the only contributor was "Amwelladmin" (talk))
• 11:01, 13 October 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs deleted page Template:M gen Equity Derivatives 12.9(a)(vi) (content was: "{{triplecocktail}}", and the only contributor was "Amwelladmin" (talk))
• 11:00, 13 October 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:M premium Equity Derivatives 12.9(a)(vi) (Created page with "*more about the triple cocktail")
• 11:00, 13 October 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs deleted page Template:M gen Equity Derivatives 13.2(b) (content was: "{{triplecocktail}}", and the only contributor was "Amwelladmin" (talk))
• 10:57, 13 October 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:M premium Equity Derivatives Triple Cocktail (Created page with "*A deeper dive into the five instalments of the triple cocktail, what they all mean, what happens if they conflict, and some examples of when they have happened.")
• 09:40, 13 October 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:M intro technology pattern matching (Created page with "{{quote| I could go on and on about the failings of Shakespeare ... but really I shouldn’t need to: the Bayesian priors are pretty damning. About half of the people born since 1600 have been born in the past 100 years, but it gets much worse than that. When Shakespeare wrote, almost all of Europeans were busy farming, and very few people attended university; few people were even literate—probably as low as about ten million people. By contrast, there are now upwa...")
• 09:23, 13 October 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:M premium Equity Derivatives 12.9(a)(v) (Created page with "*what of ''informal'' action by a regulator? *The bogus “why should I pay your hedging costs? I have no control over them” argument *Commentary on other pernickety amendments")
• 08:46, 13 October 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Pattern matching (Created page with "{{essay|technology|pattern matching|}}") Tag: Visual edit: Switched
• 20:52, 12 October 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page File:Sheeple.jpg
• 20:52, 12 October 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs uploaded File:Sheeple.jpg
• 17:23, 12 October 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Category:2002 ISDA - Essay (Created page with "{{c|Essays}}")
• 14:18, 12 October 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page File:StewartBrand.jpg
• 14:18, 12 October 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs uploaded File:StewartBrand.jpg
• 08:17, 12 October 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Business continuity plan (Redirected page to Business continuity management) Tag: New redirect
• 08:14, 12 October 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page S.N.A.F.U. (Redirected page to Snafu) Tag: New redirect
• 08:13, 12 October 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Situation normal: all fucked up (Redirected page to Snafu) Tag: New redirect
• 08:12, 12 October 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Snafu (Created page with "{{songbook|}}{{quote| Hey, Mr Policeman, sing me a song<br> Shit’s going down and I ain’t got long<br> They’re ringing of the wall ’til the phone goes berserk<br> They’re cranking on the handle but the motor don’t work<br> Hey, Mr. Policeman, they sold me a pup:<br> It’s situation normal: all fucked up. :—Dangerboy, ''Situation Normal''}}") Tag: Visual edit: Switched
• 15:33, 10 October 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page File:ABC glengarry.png
• 15:33, 10 October 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs uploaded File:ABC glengarry.png
• 15:24, 10 October 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Always be commenting (Created page with "{{a|office|}}{{quote|“A-B-C. A: always. B: Be. C: Commenting. Always be commenting! ''Always'' be commenting! A-I-D-A: A: Always. I: In the name of. D: Doubt. A: ''Avoidance''. Always: Am I commenting? In: Am I in the office? Doubt: could someone, however petrified, paranoid, or beyond the practical reach of modern common sense, miscontrue? We are talking about judges, fellows. You are writing for JUDGES. Avoidance: Have I avoided it?...")
• 11:38, 10 October 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:M intro devil expected value (Created page with "{{quote|One response to these sort of calculations is they are a kind of gonzo science fiction. No-one actually knows what the odds of any of these things are, and your willingness to make up some number should render you less, not more, credible on the subject. And yet, there clearly is ''some'' chance that all of these terrible things might occur. And if there is some chance, how can you not try to figure out what that chance might be? You are free to quibble about the...")
• 11:23, 10 October 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page File:Expected Value.jpg
• 11:23, 10 October 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs uploaded File:Expected Value.jpg
• 11:22, 10 October 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Expected value (Created page with "{{essay|devil|expected value|{{image|Expected Value|png|''That Dude Should Not Be Talking About Expected Value'' {{vsr|2023}}|}}}}")
• 21:09, 3 October 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:M intro work domestication of law (Created page with "{{Who domesticated whom}}") Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
• 21:09, 3 October 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page The domestication of law (Created page with "{{essay|work|domestication of law|}}") Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
• 21:08, 3 October 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template talk:Who domesticated whom (Created page with "The domestication of law") Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
• 21:06, 3 October 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:Who domesticated whom (Created page with "Just as one can make the case that humans did not domesticate wheat so much as wheat domesticated humans,<ref>A {{author|Yuval Noah Harari}} ''bon mot'' that owes something to {{author|Richard Dawkins}}’ idea of the extended phenotype, we feel.</ref> so might one argue that investment banks did not domesticate big law firms as much as big law — okay, and big consultancy — cultivated the investment banks. Our IB GC genealogy refers. For ther...") Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
• 14:24, 3 October 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:M sa repack meetings of noteholders (Created page with "*Enforcing security *Amendment")
• 14:24, 3 October 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:M premium summary repack meetings of noteholders (Created page with "*A deeper philosophical rumination about ''why'' you might need noteholder meeting provisions")
• 14:23, 3 October 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:M intro repack meetings of noteholders (Created page with "If you want to change anything in a bearer security, you will need to round up all the noteholders and ask them to agree. This is quite the exercise and involved all the procedural faffery of conducting an formal business meeting — a lost art in these days of zooms, change management and remote working, but once upon a time almost all business meetings had a formal chair, a quorum, a minute secretary and resolutions. If there is a note trustee, it can make decisi...")
• 14:08, 3 October 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:M sa repack MTN structure (Created page with "* Medium term note programme * Repackaging programme")
• 14:08, 3 October 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:M intro repack MTN structure (Created page with "You will know by now old Grandpa Contrarian’s story of the farmer and the sheep. It is illustrated richly in every cove, inlet and waterway of the financial markets, but is no better exemplified than in the genetic structure of a medium term note programme. These, for the fortunately uninitiated, are architectural structures by which corporations raise funds in the international debt capital markets. Their history is long and mildly diverting at best — t...")
• 14:02, 3 October 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Meetings of noteholders (Created page with "{{essay|repack|meetings of noteholders|}}")
• 13:36, 3 October 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:M sa repack application of proceeds (Created page with "*Enforcing security *Payments waterfall")
• 13:26, 3 October 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template talk:M intro repack application of proceeds (Created page with "(a) Application of Available Proceeds of Liquidation The Issuer shall, on each Issuer Application Date, apply the Available Proceeds as they stand on each such date as follows: (i) first, pari passu, in payment of: (A) where immediately prior to the associated termination of the Swap Agreement, the Swap Counterparty’s Credit Support Balance (VM) (if any, in its capacity as Transferor under the Credit Support Annex) was greater than zero, an amount (as determined by the...")
• 13:19, 3 October 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:M premium summary repack payments waterfall (Created page with "*Rating Agencies and the “flip clause” *The Trustee Act and the Trustee’s primary responsibility")
• 13:16, 3 October 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:M sa repack payments waterfall (Created page with "*I’ll be gone; you’ll be gone *Application of proceeds *Enforcing security")
• 13:16, 3 October 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:M intro repack payments waterfall (Created page with "The priority of payments waterfall in a repackaging is an important, but fundamentally dull, piece of engineering, only made interesting, somewhat, when rating agencies intervene sometimes to make life harder for dealers. The idea is to sort out all the agents and their mandatory running costs first, then “senior” creditors — typically the broker as swap counterparty, though this is where rating agencies can intervene — then getting to the Noteholders and if...")
• 12:36, 3 October 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:M intro repack application of proceeds (Created page with "There comes a time in a asset-backed espievie’s life when things go ''Germknödel in der Luft‎''. This can happen two ways: The expected way: because some part of the security package — an underlying asset, a swap counterparty or, heaven forbid, the paying agent has failed. These are regrettable externalities of ''la vie financière'' which no-one ''wants'', exactly, but exposure to these risks, and the compensation one earns fo...")
• 12:25, 3 October 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Application of proceeds (Created page with "{{essay|repack|application of proceeds|}}")
• 12:19, 3 October 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:AI Negative covenant (Created page with "A negative covenant is a promise made by the borrower to refrain from certain actions that could negatively affect its ability to repay the loan. These are restrictions placed on the borrower to help ensure continued creditworthiness such that the borrower can repay its loans to the lender. For example, a negative covenant might prohibit the borrower from taking on additional debt, selling certain assets, or making certain changes to the business without the lender’s...")
• 12:15, 3 October 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Negative covenant (Created page with "{{essay|repack|negative covenant|{{aisegment}}}}")
• 12:11, 3 October 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Category:Repack - Premium (Created page with "{{c|repackaging}}")
• 12:06, 3 October 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:AI Covenant to pay (Created page with "A covenant to pay clause is a common feature in bond trust deeds and other security documents. In the context of a bond trust deed, if a trustee is appointed by the issuer, the undertaking of the issuer to pay interest and to repay principal will be vested in the trustee. The trustee’s role is to act as a fiduciary on behalf of bondholders in accordance with the terms of the trust deed. Common wisdom is that the covenant to pay clause legally binds the issuer to fulf...")
• 11:51, 3 October 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:Aisegment (Created page with "'''From our machine overlords'''<br> {{small|80}}Here is what, NiGEL, our cheeky little GPT3 chatbot had to say when asked to explain: {{subtable| 80px|right {{small|90}}{{AI {{PAGENAME}}}} {{small|70}}''[[Template:AI {{PAGENAME}}|view template]]''</div><br>''Disclaimer: NiGEL’s a neural network, he drinks a lot, and he spends too much time on the internet, so if you listen to anything he...")
• 11:22, 3 October 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:M premium summary repack covenant to pay (Created page with "*In some more detail, including chat about Balearic benders, about why that pro tanto discharge, however time-honoured it might seem, doesn’t appear to do anything.")
• 11:02, 3 October 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:M sa repack covenant to pay (Created page with "*Signal versus noise *Stupid banker cases *Specialty *Limitation Act 1980")