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These are the ''other'' termination events your [[Credit officer|Credit department]] has dreamt up for this specific counterparty, that didn’t occur to the framers of the {{isdama}} — or, at any rate, weren’t sufficiently universal to warrant being included in the {{isdama}} for all. While the standard {{{{{1}}}|Termination Events}} tend to be “non-fault” events which justify termination of the relationship on economic grounds, but not on terms necessarily punitive to the {{{{{1}}}|Affected Party}}, Additional Termination Events are more “credity”, more susceptible of moral outrage, and as such more closely resemble {{{{{1}}}|Events of Default}} than {{{{{1}}}|Termination Events}}.
{{{{{1}}}|Additional Termination Event}}s are the ''other'' termination events your [[Credit officer|Credit department]] has dreamt up for this specific counterparty, that didn’t occur to the framers of the {{isdama}} — or, at any rate, weren’t sufficiently universal to warrant being included in the {{isdama}} for all. While the standard {{{{{1}}}|Termination Events}} tend to be “non-fault” events which justify termination of the relationship on economic grounds, but not on terms necessarily punitive to the {{{{{1}}}|Affected Party}}, {{{{{1}}}|Additional Termination Event}}s are more “credit-y”, more susceptible of moral outrage, and as such more closely resemble {{{{{1}}}|Events of Default}} than {{{{{1}}}|Termination Events}}.


===Examples===
Common ones include:
Common ones include:


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*Parent divestment (where counterparty is a financing subsidiary)
*Parent divestment (where counterparty is a financing subsidiary)


===All they are cracked up to be?===
There is a — well, ''contrarian'' — school of thought that {{{{{1}}}|Additional Termination Event}}s better serve the interests of the [[Negotiator|Ancient Guild of Contract Negotiators]] and the [[Credit officer|Worshipful Company of Credit Officers]] than they do the shareholders of the institutions for whom these artisans practise their craft, for in these days of [[Threshold - CSA Provision|zero-threshold]] [[CSA|CSAs]], the ''real'' credit protections in the {{isdama}} are the standard {{{{{1}}}|Events of Default}} (especially {{{{{1}}}|Failure to Pay or Deliver}} and {{{{{1}}}|Bankruptcy}}).
There is a school of thought that Additional Termination Events better serve the interests of the [[Negotiator|Ancient Guild of Contract Negotiators]] and the [[Credit officer|Worshipful Company of Credit Officers]] than they do the shareholders of the institutions for whom these artisans practise their craft, for in these days of [[Threshold - CSA Provision|zero-threshold]] [[CSA|CSAs]], the real credit protections in the {{isdama}} are the standard {{{{{1}}}|Events of Default}} (especially {{{{{1}}}|Failure to Pay or Deliver}} and {{{{{1}}}|Bankruptcy}}).


It’s a fair bet no-one in the organisation will have kept a record of how often you pulled [[NAV trigger]]. It may well be ''never''.  
It’s a fair bet no-one in the organisation will have kept a record of how often you pulled [[NAV trigger]]. It may well be ''never''.