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In which the {{isdama}} deals with the pointless topic of [[counterparts]], and the workaday one of {{isdaprov|Confirmation}}s.
In which the {{isdama}} deals with the pointless topic of [[counterparts]], and the workaday one of {{isdaprov|Confirmation}}s.
===Section {{{{{1}}}|9(e)(i)}} [[Counterpart]]s===
=====Section {{{{{1}}}|9(e)(i)}} [[Counterpart]]s=====
There is an impassioned essay about the idiocy of [[counterparts]] clauses elsewhere.<ref>In the [[counterparts]] article, as a matter of fact.</ref> For now, just know this:
There is an impassioned essay about the idiocy of [[counterparts]] clauses elsewhere.<ref>In the [[counterparts]] article, as a matter of fact.</ref> For now, just know this:


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But was there ever a logical ''cul-de-sac'' so neat, so compelling, that it stopped a [[legal eagle]] insisting on stating it anyway, on pain of cratering the trade? There are little eaglets to feed, my friends.
But was there ever a logical ''cul-de-sac'' so neat, so compelling, that it stopped a [[legal eagle]] insisting on stating it anyway, on pain of cratering the trade? There are little eaglets to feed, my friends.
===Section {{{{{1}}}|9(e)(ii)}} {{{{{1}}}|Confirmation}}s===
=====Section {{{{{1}}}|9(e)(ii)}} {{{{{1}}}|Confirmation}}s=====
====Trade versus confirmation: celebrity death-match====
======“Trade” versus “confirmation”: celebrity death-match======
If a [[Trading|trader]] agrees one thing, and the [[confirmation]] the parties subsequently sign says another, which gives? A 15 second dealing-floor exchange on a crackly taped line, or the carefully-wrought ten page, counterpart-executed legal epistle that follows it?
If a [[Trading|trader]] agrees one thing, and the [[confirmation]] the parties subsequently sign says another, which gives? A 15 second dealing-floor exchange on a crackly taped line, or the carefully-wrought ten page, counterpart-executed legal epistle that follows it?


'''TL;DR''': The ''original oral trade prevails''.
The ''original oral trade prevails''. As to why — we address that in the premium section.


The [[confirmation]] is evidence of the [[transaction]], ''but it does not override the original [[transaction]] terms, if they are different''.
======Dare we mention ... ''[[email]]''?======
 
That is, the binding trade may be a phone call or a bloomberg chat. (This sits kind of uneasily with that {{isdaprov|Entire Agreement}} clause, but still.)
 
If there is a dispute about the terms of your [[confirmation]], you are going to have to pull the tapes.
 
There are some very good reasons for this. Firstly, the original trade was done by the trader with the trading mandate. The [[confirmation]] will be punted out by some dude in [[Operations|ops]] who might not be able to read the trader’s handwriting. Ops can and will get things wrong. That is correctable on the record. The trader doesn’t “get things wrong”. If she does, you’re into [[mistake]] territory. The law on [[contractual mistake]]s is beloved by students of the law and misunderstood by everyone else. But, generally, if the trader erroneously executes a trade, and the trader’s counterparty understands it correctly, the trader, and the firm she works for, will be bound by the error. That’s not a [[contractual mistake]]. It’s just a bad trade.
 
By contrast, a settlements and reconciliations dude who sends out a confirm which carelessly misinterprets the trade log is not making a [[contractual mistake]]: he is ''incorrectly recording the contract''. That ''wasn’t'' the trade (good or bad) that the trader did.
 
Similarly, the reconciliations dude who sends out a confirm ''which corrects an error made by the trader'' has no mandate to make that change. The error is the trader’s. The trader should live with it, and throw herself at the mercy of the jurisprudence of [[contractual mistake]]s if need be: it is not for said reconciliations dude to pull her out of a hole.
====Dare we mention ... ''[[email]]''?====
Note also the addition of [[e-mail]] as a means of communication to the {{2002ma}} ([[email]] not really having been a “thing” in 1992). This caused all kinds of [[fear and loathing]] among the judiciary, when asked about it, as can be seen in the frightful case of {{casenote|Greenclose|National Westminster Bank plc}}.Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.
Note also the addition of [[e-mail]] as a means of communication to the {{2002ma}} ([[email]] not really having been a “thing” in 1992). This caused all kinds of [[fear and loathing]] among the judiciary, when asked about it, as can be seen in the frightful case of {{casenote|Greenclose|National Westminster Bank plc}}.Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.


==== [[Timely confirmation]] regulations and deemed consent====
====== [[Timely confirmation]] regulations and deemed consent======
Both {{t|EMIR}} and [[Dodd Frank]] have [[timely confirmation]] requirements obliging parties to have confirmed their scratchy tape recordings within a short period (around 3 days). This fell out of a huge backlog in confirming structured [[credit derivatives]] trades following the [[Lehman]] collapse.
Both {{t|EMIR}} and [[Dodd Frank]] have [[timely confirmation]] requirements obliging parties to have confirmed their scratchy tape recordings within a short period (around 3 days). This fell out of a huge backlog in confirming structured [[credit derivatives]] trades following the [[Lehman]] collapse.


====Roger Moore indahouse ====
======Roger Moore indahouse ======
Lastly, a rare opportunity to praise those maestros of legal word-wrangelry, {{icds}}. In Section {{{{{1}}}|9(e)(ii)}}, they contemplate that one might agree a {{{{{1}}}|Transaction}} “[[orally or otherwise]]”. This is a smidgen wider than the usual [[legal eagle]] formulation of [[orally or in writing]]. It shows that while the swaps whizzes were conservative about how to [[close out]] a {{{{{1}}}|Transaction}}, when putting one ''on'' you are constrained only by the bounds of your imagination and the limits of interpersonal ambiguity: not just [[In writing|written words]], nor even [[Oral|oral ones]], but the whole panoply of possible human communications: semaphore, naval flags, Morse code, waggled eyebrows, embarrassed smiles and any other kinds of physical gesture.
Lastly, a rare opportunity to praise those maestros of legal word-wrangelry, {{icds}}. In Section {{{{{1}}}|9(e)(ii)}}, they contemplate that one might agree a {{{{{1}}}|Transaction}} “[[orally or otherwise]]”. This is a smidgen wider than the usual [[legal eagle]] formulation of [[orally or in writing]]. It shows that while the swaps whizzes were conservative about how to [[close out]] a {{{{{1}}}|Transaction}}, when putting one ''on'' you are constrained only by the bounds of your imagination and the limits of interpersonal ambiguity: not just [[In writing|written words]], nor even [[Oral|oral ones]], but the whole panoply of possible human communications: semaphore, naval flags, Morse code, waggled eyebrows, embarrassed smiles and any other kinds of physical gesture.