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{{a|glossary|}}Sometimes known as an [[enforcement event]], an [[event of default]] is an action a counterparty takes which justifies the innocent party from terminating the contract, [[close out|closing out]] open transactions, and raining down fiery hell on the wronger and its affiliates, directors, officers, employees, agents and delegates.
{{a|glossary|}}Sometimes known as an [[enforcement event]], an [[event of default]] is an action a counterparty takes which justifies the innocent party terminating the contract ''under its terms'', [[close out|closing out]] open transactions, and raining down fiery hell on the wronger and its affiliates, directors, officers, employees, agents and delegates.
 
It has a different consequence to a [[repudiatory breach|repudiatory, or fundamental, breach]] of contract, even though the two are largely the same, and a “repudiation of contract” may even be characterised as am event of default.
 
{{Event of default vs fundamental breach}}
===Under the [[master agreements|master trading agreements]]===
===Under the [[master agreements|master trading agreements]]===
There is specific idiosyncratic lore attaching to the events of default under differing market standard master agreements, so go with alacrity to:
There is specific idiosyncratic lore attaching to the events of default under differing market standard master agreements, so go with alacrity to: