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The ISDA Schedule has space to specify who the {{isdaprov|Calculation Agent}} should be but, curiously, gives scant hints as to what such an agent should do: the term isn’t otherwised defined — or even used — in either version of the {{isdama}}. The role comes in to its own under the {{csa}} and the various definitions booklets ISDA has published. The Calculation agent can differ from transaction to transaction, and while guileless negotiation teams may therefore spend a great deal of energy haggling fruitlessly about who should be the {{isdaprov|Calculation Agent}}, and what rights the other poor sap should have to challenge its determinations, in practice it will be the [[dealer]].
The ISDA Schedule has space to specify who the {{isdaprov|Calculation Agent}} should be but, curiously, gives scant hints as to what such an agent should do: the term isn’t otherwised defined — or even used — in either version of the {{isdama}}. The role comes in to its own under the {{csa}} and the various definitions booklets ISDA has published. The Calculation agent can differ from transaction to transaction, and while guileless negotiation teams may therefore spend a great deal of energy haggling fruitlessly about who should be the {{isdaprov|Calculation Agent}}, and what rights the other poor sap should have to challenge its determinations, in practice it will be the [[dealer]].


As well as in the {{isdama}}, the term is defined separately in each definition booklet, giving everyone a nice opportunity for some [[clarifying hierarchy]] action:
As well as in the {{isdama}}, the term is defined separately in each definition booklet, giving everyone a nice opportunity for some [[clarifying hierarchy]] action.
*In the {{eqdefs}} at Section {{eqderivprov|1.40}};
*In the {{funddefs}} (in virtually identical terms to the {{eqdefs}}) at Section {{funddefprov|1.27}};
*In the {{commoddefs}} at greater length in Section {{commoddefprov|4.5}};
===[[Co-calculation agent]]===
===[[Co-calculation agent]]===
{{cocalculationagent}}
{{cocalculationagent}}

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