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==Rating agencies and the “flip clause”== | ==Rating agencies and the “flip clause”== | ||
[[File:Flip Scenarios.pdf|page=1|600px]] | |||
It became ''a la mode'' in the dog days of the [[CDO]] market for rating agencies to require the priority as between [[Counterparty|swap counterparty]] and [[noteholder]]s to be inverted upon a swap counterparty insolvency — this is the so-called rating agency “flip” clause. | It became ''a la mode'' in the dog days of the [[CDO]] market for rating agencies to require the priority as between [[Counterparty|swap counterparty]] and [[noteholder]]s to be inverted upon a swap counterparty insolvency — this is the so-called rating agency “flip” clause. | ||