Collateral

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Collateral, as a abstract concept, is securities and cash a counterparty puts up as credit risk mitigation.
A collateral contract — an even more abstract concept — is a binding agreement which is collateral to — in other words it supports or gives a person a right to enter into a contract. For example, certain forms of option — swaptions for example — are collateral contracts.