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  • Customer
    ...ks with his granddaughter and would be horrified at the things perpetrated in his name and with his money.
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  • Sell-side
    ...dvisors whom, since they ''buy'' these things, we generally know as the “[[buy-side]]”. ...seller, and on-selling to a buyer, but the economic upshot of what they do in either case is the same. They take a commission (brokers), or a spread (dea
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  • Buy-side
    ...in practice, if these fabled older people even exist, they are represented in the markets by those rapacious titans of the asset management industry, rea
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  • Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism
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  • Potts opinion
    ...Potts|jpg|Jedi Master Pobin Rot-Squeue Sie with his sacred scroll sabre}}}}In the primordial times of {{cderiv}} — the [[Children of the Woods]], the [ ...ts do, and sought wise counsel. In this case, a Mr [[Robin Potts QC]], who in 1997 opined that a credit derivative should not be characterised as an insu
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  • Virtue marketing
    “Republicans buy sneakers, too.” ...ting|/ˈvɜːʧuː ˈmɑːkɪtɪŋ/|n|}}To salve your generic discomfort at your role in the dirty business of commerce by projecting it into your employer’s mark
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  • Credit value adjustment
    ...orting types to [[financial instrument]]s one holds to account for changes in the [[creditworthiness]] of the [[issuer]] of those instruments since their ...t quality deteriorates. While there are pros and cons to including [[DVA]] in earnings, most people see it as accounting gimmickry that doesn’t reflect
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  • Do not buy a warranty on a toaster
    {{a|maxim|{{image|Toaster|png|No. Just No.}}}}{{maxim|Do not buy a warranty on a toaster}}. ...olvent'' insurers necessarily overprice the actual probability of the loss in question: those who do not will not remain solvent, and insurers who do not
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  • 1MDB
    ...conspirators and used to support lavish lifestyles, fund political causes, buy luxury items, properties, super-yachts, and to produce, of all films, ''The ...st one Goldman Managing Director, Roger Ng, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison, while Leissner, who pled guilty and testified against Ng, is awaiti
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  • Loss of profits
    ...amages}}</div>}}}}''Not'' the same thing as [[consequential loss]], though in many cases it is a type of consequential loss. It is possible for a [[loss ...had agreed to purchase from me, had you not reneged on your obligation to buy it. Which means there are [[:category:schoolboy error|schoolboy error]]s ah
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  • Change in law
    {{a|contract|}}You might want, sometimes, to capture the effect of a [[change in law]] that has not yet happened, indeed ''might'' not happen, but ''could'' ...es for April 2026, and the EU announces a plan to disestablish the EU ETS in April 2025 — meaning that you really want to get your hands on the Allowa
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  • Mozambique tuna bonds fiasco
    ...ut without the the knowledge or approval of the government, purportedly to buy a tuna factory and a maritime security fleet, and to finance other state-ow When the Mozambique government found out what had been going on, in 2016, it assumed the debt admitted the full scale of the borrowing. This tr
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  • Cheapest-to-deliver
    {{drop|A|r some point}} in the 1990s someone came up with the idea of [[Credit derivative|credit deriv [[Debt instrument]]s come in all shapes and sizes — [[bond]]<nowiki/>s, [[Medium term note|medium term
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  • Rehypothecation
    ...to return [[equivalent]] assets (which it must go and get, by buying them in the market) when the client wants them back. ...on stilts|Benthamite]]” in that it admits of [[paradox]] — that ''revels'' in it — and rehypothecation is one of its higher tide marks. To “[[rehypot
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  • Permitted Receivers - OneNDA Provision
    ===Who’s in=== ...uciary duty|fiduciary duties]] to respect [[confidentiality]] and may even buy you legal [[privilege]] for whatever that is worth these days.
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  • Lend Me Your Love
    ...cally, employes technical legal terminology. Mr. Slim was evidently often in the business of [[Borrow|borrowing]], [[rehypothecating]] and possibly [[Sh ...moanin’ just like Noah’s dove<ref>A bird released by Noah after the flood in order to find land; it eventually came back carrying a freshly plucked oliv
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  • MiFID v EMIR
    ...pean investment banking and trading worlds are MiFID — the [[MiFID|Markets in Financial Instruments Directive]] and [[EMIR]] — the [[European Market In ...suring safety rails are in place to avoid the concentration of market risk in the system.
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  • EU Emissions Annex
    ...pliance users have conflicting emotions: on one hand, I would like to lock in the price, now, of an Allowance, so I am not at the mercy of the rapacious ...ay’s ''spot'' price of course; it will be today’s ''forward'' price, which in a [[contango]] market will be higher — but you only ''settle'' the trade
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  • Maxims for a happy life
    ...t’s lonely being a contrarian]]. Be a contrarian, but be prepared to stand in the cold. If you challenge a popular, bad idea that happens to be “libera ...people whose bad ideas happen to align with yours might seek to bring you in. Don’t let them. Stay aloof. ''[[It’s lonely being a contrarian]]''.
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  • Bonus
    ...firm uses to acquire kit, rent premises, pay suppliers and hire staff, all in the collective enterprise of selling goods and services. ...nsaction by which she invested capital was a sale and purchase: money paid in return for a ''[[share]]''. If she wants out, the company is not obliged to
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  • GameStop
    In which the experts in the market got properly schooled by a bunch of daytraders. Acres have been ...|hedge-fund]] face''. This would have been different were the stock higher in its range. If the cash you have available for margin is limited — it is;
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  • Consequential loss
    ...d. It is predictable, finite, determinate and easy for the parties to hold in contemplation. “If I can’t go through with this the worst I can be stuc ...elsewhere (at exactly, or less than, her [[direct loss]]) and then used it in any of the ways she is now complaining about, to earn that money and mitiga
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  • Metric
    The stock-in-trade of a [[Middle management|middle manager]] and the [[management consul ...work in sociology and [[systems theory]], and at the same time go ignored in the upper tiers of corporate management:
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  • Pareto triage
    To exercise “[[Pareto triage]]” is to move beyond the ''observation'' that, in a given period, eighty percent of your revenues may be attributed to twenty ...and instead concentrating on that lovely twenty percent segment who bring in all the rest of our income. }}
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  • Ignore
    Dear old [[Grandma Contrarian]] demonstrated the sense in this adage countless times on the rambunctious young JC. To be sure, he cou ...ed to work as promised, leaked and then exploded, putting my mother-in-law in hospital and your warranty department is not answering the phone” but you
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  • Bitcoin
    ...orth that same amount tomorrow, and that any other merchant you might find in the market tomorrow will share your opinion. ...t payment. We are motivated by the machinery of the state to see the value in its currency.
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  • Power structure
    That is to say, we all participate in power structures great and small, important and trivial, and they intersect Even people who ''complain'' about power structures — at least ones who do in an organised and compelling way — have a power structure. [[Critical theo
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  • Calculation Agent
    ...nded fan-fiction universe ([[GMSLA]], [[GMRA]], [[DRV]], [[FBF]] etc), and in the documentation of [[debt securities]]. ...{eqderivprov|Calculation Agent}} and the {{eqderivprov|Determining Party}} in the {{eqdefs}}.</ref>
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  • Normal distribution
    ...t quickly from crowded theatres when someone yells fire or to hysterically buy, and then sell, [[Enron]] stock ''[[for fear of missing out]]'' — are not ...consecutive heads is ''0.5 x 10<sup>99</sup>'', which you wouldn’t expect in several lifetimes of the universe.”
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  • Fish or cut bait
    ...sh altogether. So, “crap, or get off the pot”.}}}}“[[Use it or lose it]]”, in the vernacular. ...forced you to agree when you were a two-person start-up above a shoe-shop in Camden. I ''know'', right?
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  • Reliance on legal advice
    ...ur. Wearer not identified.}} }}You may see this sort of clause, especially in a [[custody]] or [[agency]] agreement: ...d will not be liable for any action taken or [[Act or omission|not taken]] in reliance upon that advice''.<ref>The SPIRE version, for completists, is as
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  • Stakeholder capitalism
    ...same idea: a recurring, algorithmic process can ''reduce'' the [[entropy]] in a system. Creation comes from chaos. This is is as “dangerous” to Newto ...ry project, every transaction against a single, simple yardstick: ''was it in the [[Shareholder|shareholders]]’ best interest?''
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  • Splash quotes
    '''April 2024''': “Shakespeare is known in our house as the gentleman who pays the rent.” — Judy Dench <br> ...the valleys, so does ancient sin cling to the low places, the depressions in the world consciousness.” — Dr. Louis Judd, ''The Anatomy of Atavism''
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  • Something for the weekend, sir?
    ====In progress==== *[[Reasons to hope we are in a post truth world]]
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  • This time it’s different
    ...ence by critics of all eras that this time is different, yet so many still buy into the pyramid scheme that we are special. It is both self-aggrandising a ...e nice to people for a change, one girl sitting on her own in a small café in Rickmansworth suddenly realized what it was that had been going wrong all t
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  • The Death and Life of Great American Cities
    ...tuitive, is so visionary, pluralistic and ''brilliant''. Anyone interested in how distributed networks should best be organised —or should be allowed t ...obs’ was one of the first, gave these remote principles vivid articulation in specific fields. Jacobs’ was urban planning — wait: bear with me — an
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  • Software-as-a-service
    ...reg tech]] ''solutions'' are alike; each reg tech ''problem'' is a problem in its own way.” <br> A fancy way of [[Do not buy a warranty on a toaster|selling a warranty on a toaster]].
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  • Uniqueness
    ...not easily [[scale]]: since intellectual property was necessarily embedded in a physical [[substrate]] — to read a novel you needed a physical book — ...n [[René Descartes|Cartesian]] terms, paper is physical, real-world stuff: in Descartes’ lexicon “[[res extensa]]”; [[intellectual property]] is ''
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  • Finance contract
    ...you a large sum of money; you pay me interest, and eventually pay it back. In the mean time I am constantly beset by daemons, plagues, dread terrors and ...e syndicated amongst a bunch of borrowers. There are also traded interests in [[loan]]s called [[participation]]s. These may also be secured or unsecured
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  • Limited recourse
    ...tions under it are limited to a defined pool of assets. You see this a lot in [[repackaging]]s, [[securitisation]]s and other structured transactions inv ...d recourse obligation|secured note]]s, to investors and with the proceeds, buy securities, make investments and enter swaps, loans and other transactions
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  • Employment derivatives
    ...nts designed to manage the risk of employment variability. First developed in the early part of this millennium by derivatives pioneer and perennial boil ...and was high, his salary ''should'' ratchet up in pleasing annual notches. In times of recession it would not. The record of his own payslips reflected a
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  • Finite and Infinite Games
    ...originally. As you surrender the sound on your lips, I surrender the sound in my ear.”</blockquote>As such, [[Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Li ...e''' is, in the narrow sense, a ''contest:'' fixed rules, fixed boundaries in time and space, an agreed objective and, usually, a winner and a loser. For
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  • SIV Endgame: An Opco Boone Adventure
    ...hard. It was in a skirmish with a rogue [[structured investment vehicle]] in the Caymans.” ...]]. Shoulder-mounted [[Master Securities Lending Agreement|Mizzlers]] and, in case of [[Agent lender|ALD]] cointel interference, a brace of bump-stock [[
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