Template:M summ 2002 ISDA Applicable Close-out Rate
Truly from the I’m sorry I asked file — almost in the shoot me file. This whole game of pan-dimensional chess, with six different rates to apply in different circumstances, is all just to work out how to accrue interest on Unpaid Amounts and Early Termination Amounts when closing out. You get a strong sense that the pragmatists of ISDA’s crack drafting squad™ — if there are any — had well and truly tuned out and gone to the bar by the the ’squad got to this definition. Looking on the bright side, at least it doesn’t mention LIBOR.[1]
Default Rate
Default interest is one of those perennial things in finance and is generally a rate higher than the implied funding rate for the period and person in question. You might well ask — though one might, as the JC does, struggle heroically to not go there — whether an arbitrary loading on what ought to be a fair estimate of one’s actual carrying cost is not an unenforceable penalty, but hey, everyone does it.
