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{{g}}A [[relationship contract]] is a legal agreement that governs the general relationship between two parties, within the parameters of which they can transact or provide and consume services among themselves, but the relationship contract itself does not commit either party to any transaction in particular. They are [[framework agreement]]s. They describe an architecture within which the parties may dance. | {{g}}A [[relationship contract]] is a legal agreement that governs the general relationship between two parties, within the parameters of which they can transact or provide and consume services among themselves, but the relationship contract itself does not commit either party to any transaction in particular. They are [[framework agreement]]s. They describe an architecture within which the parties may dance. | ||
So, [[terms of business]], [[ | So, [[terms of business]], [[master trading agreement]]s, [[custody agreement]]s and so forth. Unlike transactions, relationships are long, indeterminate affairs of no fixed duration — the longer the better — and it is a curious fact that they suffer concentrated, intense, white-hot focus from all concerned during their formation, right up until the very moment they are executed — a period of time in which, necessarily, the parties have nothing at stake between them at all — and after, not a soul on either side gives them so much as a backward glance for the next twenty years, in which period the each party’s risk to the other may gyrate colossal peaks. | ||
[[Relationship contract]]s are invariably struck in fine weather, but concern themselves exclusively with what should happen if it rains, hence they are basically a downer, articulating as they do the deepest and most paranoid fears of each other’s credit departments on a day that is meant to be one of unalloyed joy. | [[Relationship contract]]s are invariably struck in fine weather, but concern themselves exclusively with what should happen if it rains, hence they are basically a downer, articulating as they do the deepest and most paranoid fears of each other’s credit departments on a day that is meant to be one of unalloyed joy. | ||