Specified Transaction - ISDA Provision

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1992 ISDA

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1992 ISDA
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2002 ISDA
"Specified Transaction” means, subject to the Schedule,

(a) any transaction (including an agreement with respect to any such transaction) now existing or hereafter entered into between one party to this Agreement (or any Credit Support Provider of such party or any applicable Specified Entity of such party) and the other party to this Agreement (or any Credit Support Provider of such other party or any applicable Specified Entity of such other party) which is not a Transaction under this Agreement but
(i) which is a rate swap transaction, swap option, basis swap, forward rate transaction, commodity swap, commodity option, equity or equity index swap, equity or equity index option, bond option, interest rate option, foreign exchange transaction, cap transaction, floor transaction, collar transaction, currency swap transaction, cross-currency rate swap transaction, currency option, credit protection transaction, credit swap, credit default swap, credit default option, total return swap, credit spread transaction, repurchase transaction, reverse repurchase transaction, buy/sell-back transaction, securities lending transaction, weather index transaction or forward purchase or sale of a security, commodity or other financial instrument or interest (including any option with respect to any of these transactions) or
(ii) which is a type of transaction that is similar to any transaction referred to in clause (i) above that is currently, or in the future becomes, recurrently entered into in the financial markets (including terms and conditions incorporated by reference in such agreement) and which is a forward, swap, future, option or other derivative on one or more rates, currencies, commodities, equity securities or other equity instruments, debt securities or other debt instruments, economic indices or measures of economic risk or value, or other benchmarks against which payments or deliveries are to be made,
(b) any combination of these transactions and
(c) any other transaction identified as a Specified Transaction in this Agreement or the relevant confirmation.

NB - paragraph breaks do not appear in the printed form.

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2002 ISDA

Specified Transaction” means, subject to the Schedule, (a) any transaction (including an agreement with respect to any
such transaction) now existing or hereafter entered into between one party to this Agreement (or any Credit Support Provider
of such party or any applicable Specified Entity of such party) and the other party to this Agreement (or any Credit
Support Provider of such other party or any applicable Specified Entity of such other party) which is not a Transaction
under this Agreement but (i) which is a rate swap transaction, swap option, basis swap, forward rate transaction,
commodity swap, commodity option, equity or equity index swap, equity or  equity index option, bond option, interest rate option,
foreign exchange transaction, cap transaction, floor transaction, collar transaction, currency swap transaction,
cross-currency rate swap transaction, currency option, credit protection transaction, credit swap, credit default swap,
credit default option,  total return swap, credit spread transaction, repurchase transaction, reverse repurchase transaction,
buy/sell-back transaction, securities lending transaction, weather index transaction or forward purchase or
sale of a security, commodity or other financial instrument or interest (including any option with respect to any of these
transactions) or (ii) which is a type of transaction that is similar to any transaction referred to in clause (i) above that
is currently, or in the future becomes, recurrently entered into in the financial markets (including terms and conditions
incorporated by reference in such agreement) and which is a forward, swap, future, option or other derivative on one or
more rates, currencies, commodities, equity securities or other equity instruments, debt securities or other debt
instruments, economic indices or measures of economic risk or value, or other benchmarks against which payments or
deliveries are to be made, (b) any combination of these transactions and (c) any other transaction identified as a
Specified Transaction in this Agreement or the relevant confirmation.

Commentary

The 2002 ISDA expands the basic definition of Specified Transaction to specifically include credit derivatives, repo, stock lending, weather derivatives, NDFs and other commodities or similar transactions that is presently or in future becomes common in the financial markets. Note that Specified Transaction is amended in the Schedule to that 2002 standard, and additionally includes include "any futures transaction, prime brokerage transaction or margin lending transactions" which may be outside the wider scope of the 2002 ISDA.

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