Amendments - GMSLA Provision
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2010 Global Master Securities Lending Agreement
Clause 27.3 in a Nutshell™ Use at your own risk, campers!
Full text of Clause 27.3
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Amazing how so small and harmless looking a slug of boilerplate can bury so many unexpected and, really, unnecessary problems. This is a no oral modification clause for an agreement where much communication, pricing and transacting happens in a fairly informal way[1] but quaintly archaic mention of telexes and fax doesn’t help, nor does the expression “electronic messaging system”.
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Does an exchange of emails count as confirmation by “electronic messages on an electronic messaging system”? you might think so, but the judgment in Greenclose v National Westminster Bank plc — albeit about the ISDA Master Agreement might give you a different view.
Much of the meat and drink of the commercial terms of a 2010 GMSLA — dividend rates, pricing schedules, individual transaction terms — take place outside the four corners of the master agreement itself, so a no oral modification clause seems a little ripe, unless you construe it narrowly to refer only to the terms encoded in the master agreement and its schedules, I guess.
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- ↑ Less so nowadays with commercial electronic settlement systems like Equilend