Terms Relating to Premium - Equity Derivatives Provision
Overview
The definition of “Premium” in the 2021 ISDA Interest Rate Derivatives Definitions (and its predecessor the 2006 ISDA Definitions) finds expression elsewhere in the ISDA extended universe in the 2002 ISDA Equity Derivatives Definitions (Para 2.4(b), and in the ISDA Emissions Annex (Premium) and, no doubt, in other places too.
Summary
You will forgive us for not getting too excited about the Premium terms of Section 2.4, functional and unadorned as they are.
The option premium is effectively the purchase price for an option. Once paid, you have no further obligations under the Transaction, just the right — confitional on the option being in the money — to be paid on exercise. This can make matters interesting should your swap dealer decide to play Um alberne kerle zu spielen with the flawed asset provisions in your ISDA — newsflash: it won’t, as long as its risk team retains possession of their deliberative faculties, but that won’t stop the negotiation community obsessing about how to cater for the contingency that they do not. There is a lengthy disquisition about it in the “details” section of our article on Section 2(a)(iii).
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- The JC’s famous Nutshell™ summary of this clause
See also
- Option Transactions, under the whole of Section 2.
- Premium in the ISDA Emissions Annex