Base Currency Equivalent - CSA Provision

1995 ISDA Credit Support Annex (English Law) A Jolly Contrarian owner’s manual™ Resources and navigation Resources Full wikitext | Nutshell wikitext Navigation 1 (Interpretation) | 2 (Credit Support Obligations) | 3 (Transfers, Calculations and Exchanges) | 4 (Dispute Resolution) | 5 (Title Transfer etc) | 6 (Default) | 7 (Representation) | 8 (Expenses) | 9 (Miscellaneous) | 10 (Definitions) | 11 (Elections and Variables) Index — Click the ᐅ to expand: 1995 CSA Paragraph Base Currency Equivalent in a Nutshell™ Use at your own risk, campers! “Base Currency Equivalent” of an amount in a currency other than the Base Currency (the “Other Currency”) is the amount of Base Currency the Valuation Agent determines is needed to buy that Other Currency amount at the prevailing spot exchange rate on the Valuation Date. view template Full text of Paragraph Base Currency Equivalent “Base Currency Equivalent” means, with respect to an amount on a Valuation Date, in the case of an amount denominated in the Base Currency, such Base Currency amount and, in the case of an amount denominated in a currency other than the Base Currency (the “Other Currency”), the amount of Base Currency required to purchase such amount of the Other Currency at the spot exchange rate determined by the Valuation Agent for value on such Valuation Date. view template Related agreements and comparisons Related Agreements Click here for the text of Section Base Currency Equivalent in the 2016 English Law VM CSA Click here for the text of Section Base Currency Equivalent in the 1994 New York law CSA Click here for the text of Section Base Currency Equivalent in the 2016 New York law CSA Comparisons 1995 English Law CSA and 2016 English law VM CSA: click for comparison Template:Oldcsadiff Base Currency Equivalent Template:Nycsadiff Base Currency Equivalent Template:2nycsadiff Base Currency Equivalent Comments? Questions? Suggestions? Requests? Insults? We’d love to 📧 hear from you. Sign up for our newsletter.

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Aside from some last-line deck-chair rearranging by ISDA’s crack drafting squad™, the two versions are in textual terms identical, and in semantic terms they are flat out identical. Which makes you wonder who the bright spark was who thought to switch the word order around, and why.

Look, I am no fan of sticking with what you have out of sheer bloody-minded commitment to history, but if you are going to change something, at least improve it, for heaven’s sake.

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