1987 ISDA Interest Rate and Currency Exchange Agreement

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Subject 2002 (wikitext) 1992 (wikitext) 1987 (wikitext)
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Interpretation 1 1 1
Obligns/Payment 2 2 2
Representations 3 3 3
Agreements 4 4 4
EODs & Term Events 5

Events of Default
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Termination Events
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Events of Default
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Termination Events
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Events of Default
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Termination Events
IllegalityFMTax EventTEUMCEUMATE

Early Termination 6

Early Termination
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Early Termination
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Transfer 7 7 7
Contractual Currency 8 8 8
Miscellaneous 9 9 9
Offices; Multibranch Parties 10 10 10
Expenses 11 11 11
Notices 12 12 12
Governing Law 13 13 13
Definitions 14 14 14
Schedule Schedule Schedule Schedule
Termination Provisions Part 1 Part 1 Part 1
Tax Representations Part 2 Part 2 Part 2
Documents for Delivery Part 3 Part 3 Part 3
Miscellaneous Part 4 Part 4 Part 4
Other Provisions Part 5 Part 5 Part 5

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Well-and-truly out-of-date version of the ISDA Master Agreement, replaced first by the 1992 ISDA and then the 2002 ISDA, the 1987 ISDA is nonetheless useful for forensic archaeologists interested to know how the state-of-the-art version got to be how it is today.[1]

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

Nineteen eighty-seven was a different world; the very first swap transaction[2] 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 ISDA Master Agreement is not, of course, any kind of banking facility: certainly not if it is 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 ISDA Master Agreement are practically redundant, but they hang on — artifacts of the great dogma of precedent.[3] 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 6(a) — then there’s a fair chance the market developments of the last 32 years might have rendered it pointless.

Differences between 1987 ISDA and 1992 ISDA

The 1992 ISDA was introduced principally, to:

There are some others.

See also

References

  1. There are the odd 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 1992 ISDA.
  2. Between IBM and the World Bank — see swap history for more.
  3. Did I say “dogma”? I meant doctrine!