1987 ISDA Interest Rate and Currency Exchange Agreement: Difference between revisions

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{{a|isda|[[File:Musket.jpg|450px|thumb|center|An unloaded [[87 ISDA]]]]}}
{{a|isda|{{image|Musket|jpg|An unloaded {{1987ma}}}}}}Well-and-truly out-of-date version of the {{isdama}}, replaced first by the {{1992isda}} and then the {{2002isda}}, the {{1987isda}} is nonetheless useful for forensic archaeologists interested to know how the state-of-the-art version got to be how it is today.<ref>There are the odd [[Fossil record|fossils]] who still insist on using it, though most of those have long-since been taken out and shot, a process now happening to disciples of the {{1992ma}}.</ref>  
Well-and-truly out-of-date version of the {{isdama}}, replaced first by the {{1992isda}} and then the {{2002isda}}, the {{1987isda}} is nonetheless useful for forensic archaeologists interested to know how the state of the art version got to be how it is today.<ref>There are the odd [[Fossil record|fossils]] who still insist on using it, though most of those have long-since been taken out and shot, a process now happening to disciples of the {{1992ma}}.</ref>  


And it is quite the yarn: you don’t get as shot-up and crazed as an {{isdama}} without some scrapes and shootouts along the way.
And it is quite the yarn: you don’t get as shot-up and crazed as an {{isdama}} without some scrapes and shootouts along the way.


Nineteen eighty-seven was a different world; the very first swap transaction<ref>Between IBM and the World Bank — see [[swap history]] for more.</ref> was only consummated in 1981. The swap master agreement was a nascent idea to streamline the documentation between counterparties, and to capture this nascent idea of [[close-out netting]], but was basically predicated on the legal precepts of banking facilities. An {{isdama}} is not, of course, any kind of banking facility: certainly not if it is [[Variation margin|daily-margined]], as is now required by regulation for most of the 600 trillion of swaps transacted annually.  
Nineteen eighty-seven was a different world; the very first swap transaction<ref>Between IBM and the World Bank — see [[swap history]] for more.</ref> was only consummated six years previously. The swap master agreement was a nascent idea to streamline the documentation between counterparties, and to capture this nascent idea of [[close-out netting]], but was predicated on the legal precepts of banking facilities. An {{isdama}} is not, of course, any kind of banking facility: certainly not if it is [[Variation margin|daily-margined]], as is now required by regulation for most of the 600 trillion of swaps transacted annually.  


Many of the lending-derived credit concepts in the {{isdama}} are practically redundant, but they hang on — artifacts of the great [[doctrine of precedent|dogma of precedent]]<ref>Did I say “dogma”? I meant doctrine!</ref>. If it is in the agreement, it must be there for a reason, and if I cannot conceive of one that must be down to my own mental frailty, rather than the caution or basic fussiness of our forefathers and foremothers.
Many of the lending-derived credit concepts in the {{isdama}} are practically redundant, but they hang on — artifacts of the great [[doctrine of precedent|dogma of precedent]].<ref>Did I say “dogma”? I meant doctrine!</ref> If it is in the agreement, it must be there for a reason, and if I cannot conceive of one that must be down to my own mental frailty, rather than the caution or basic fussiness of our forefathers and foremothers.


So if you find something odd, check the [[fossil record]] to see if it has been there from the outset. If it has — for example, the 20-day limit on close out notices under Section {{isda87prov|6(a)}} — then there’s a fair chance the market developments of the last 32 years might have rendered it pointless.
So if you find something odd, check the [[fossil record]] to see if it has been there from the outset. If it has — for example, the 20-day limit on close out notices under Section {{isda87prov|6(a)}} — then there’s a fair chance the market developments of the last 32 years might have rendered it pointless.
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*'''Settlement netting''': more flexibility for netting groups of transactions under Section {{isda87prov|2}} - under the {{1987isda}} you could either [[net]] just within single transactions or across all {{isda87prov|Transactions}}.
*'''Settlement netting''': more flexibility for netting groups of transactions under Section {{isda87prov|2}} - under the {{1987isda}} you could either [[net]] just within single transactions or across all {{isda87prov|Transactions}}.


there are some others - a helpful guide can be found [http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=difference%20between%201987%20isda%20and%201992%20isda&source=web&cd=6&ved=0CFYQFjAF&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.otcguide.com.au%2Fotcwr%2Fpdf%2F1573077_6.pdf&ei=3uwkUOSYOdOChQf71IGYCw&usg=AFQjCNGsjOd2eJW8xzQhB-xeglU_-EUuCA here]
There are some others.


====Relevant Provisions====
{{isdaquote|{{clause|1987|ISDA|Interest Rate and Currency Exchange Agreement|5(a)(vii)}}|5(a)(vii)|1987}}
{{isdaquote|{{clause|1987|ISDA|Interest Rate and Currency Exchange Agreement|6(a)}}|6(a)|1987}}
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*{{1992ma}}
*{{2002ma}}
*[[1985 ISDA Code of Standard Wording, Assumptions and Provisions for Swaps]]
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