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These set the ISDA apart; give it a sort of otherwordly aloofness. | These set the ISDA apart; give it a sort of otherwordly aloofness. | ||
Other banking and broking | Other banking and broking transactions use labels which help you orient who is who: “Borrower” and “Lender”. “Bank” and “Client”. “Broker” and “Customer”. “Buyer” and “Seller”. | ||
From the outside ISDA’s framers — the [[First Men]] — opted for the more gnomic terms “{{isdaprov|Party A}}” and “{{isdaprov|Party B}}”. | |||
Why? We learn it from our first Schedule. ''Bilaterality''. | |||
===Bilaterality=== | ===Bilaterality=== | ||
A belief in even-handedness gripped the ones whose [[deep magic]] forged the runes from which the [[First Swap]] was born. | |||
For most finance contracts imply some sort of dominance and subservience: a large institutional “have” indulging a small commercial “have-not” with debt finance for the repayment of which the larger “have” enjoys a privileged place in the queue for repayment among the have-not’s many scrapping creditors. | |||
But [[swaps]], as the [[First Men]] saw them, are not like that. | But [[swaps]], as the [[First Men]] saw them, are not like that. |