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{{a|eqderiv|[[File:Hindenburg.jpg|450px|thumb|center|the [[2011 ISDA Equity Derivatives Definitions]] at their launch in June 2011. As far as anyone knows, they're still there.]]}}Ah, the ill fated [[2011 ISDA Equity Derivatives Definitions]]. Also known as the “Hindenburg variations”, after the dirigible hot-air derivatives disaster of 1937.<ref>For younger readers, the German passenger airship LZ 129 ''Hindenburg'' caught fire and was destroyed during its attempt to dock with its mooring mast at at the end of its maiden transatlantic voyage on May 6, 1937. The event shattered public confidence in giant, air-filled [[equity derivatives]] contracts, and marked the abrupt end of the inflatable swaps era. ''[Shouldn’t that be “inflation” swaps? — Ed.]''</ref> Oh, it ''seemed'' such a good idea. So advanced | {{a|eqderiv|[[File:Hindenburg.jpg|450px|thumb|center|the [[2011 ISDA Equity Derivatives Definitions]] at their launch in June 2011. As far as anyone knows, they're still there.]]}}Ah, the ill fated [[2011 ISDA Equity Derivatives Definitions]]. Also known as the “Hindenburg variations”, after the dirigible hot-air derivatives disaster of 1937.<ref>For younger readers, the German passenger airship LZ 129 ''Hindenburg'' caught fire and was destroyed during its attempt to dock with its mooring mast at at the end of its maiden transatlantic voyage on May 6, 1937. The event shattered public confidence in giant, air-filled [[equity derivatives]] contracts, and marked the abrupt end of the inflatable swaps era. ''[Shouldn’t that be “inflation” swaps? — Ed.]''</ref> Oh, it ''seemed'' such a good idea. So ''advanced'': ''lighter than air swaps''. Can you even ''imagine'' it? So high-tech, incorporating the very latest [[mark-up language]] — the much vaunted [[Financial products Markup Language]]. There are [[Linklaters]] lawyers alive today — alive, though ''changed'' — who have not yet refilled the existential void hollowed out from their souls by the years lost to converting all that ludicrous text into [[FpML]]. | ||
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 the 2011 ISDA Equity Derivatives Definitions at their launch in June 2011. As far as anyone knows, they're still there.
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Ah, the ill fated 2011 ISDA Equity Derivatives Definitions. Also known as the “Hindenburg variations”, after the dirigible hot-air derivatives disaster of 1937.[1] Oh, it seemed such a good idea. So advanced: lighter than air swaps. Can you even imagine it? So high-tech, incorporating the very latest mark-up language — the much vaunted Financial products Markup Language. There are Linklaters lawyers alive today — alive, though changed — who have not yet refilled the existential void hollowed out from their souls by the years lost to converting all that ludicrous text into FpML.
It’s been eight nine years, and no-one’s using ’em. Not a single soul.
Yet, like one of those millennial cults which predicted the end of the world in June 2010, woke up with a surprise on the first of July, did a double take, scratched its head, and said “well it is coming, just not today”. ISDA, who manages the standard, is still confidently predicting that “all categories of privately negotiated derivatives will eventually be included within the standard”.
In the long run, maybe.[2]
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- ↑ For younger readers, the German passenger airship LZ 129 Hindenburg caught fire and was destroyed during its attempt to dock with its mooring mast at at the end of its maiden transatlantic voyage on May 6, 1937. The event shattered public confidence in giant, air-filled equity derivatives contracts, and marked the abrupt end of the inflatable swaps era. [Shouldn’t that be “inflation” swaps? — Ed.]
- ↑ “But this long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task, if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us, that when the storm is long past, the ocean is flat again.” — John Maynard Keynes, A Tract on Monetary Reform (1923).