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[[(d)(iii) - Emissions Annex Provision|For]] the {{euaprov|Seller}} doesn’t deliver the full quota of allowances to be delivered, the {{euaprov|Buyer}} only has to pay the agreed strike/purchase price for those that are delivered, and the remainder of the {{euaprov|Transaction}} will be closed out as if it were a {{euaprov|Failure to Deliver}}. This is a bit curious — why wouldn’t it just be closed out under normal Section {{isdaprov|6}} close-out methodology and the undelivered portion be treated as an {{isdaprov|Unpaid Amount}}? But it probably gets to a similar place (though perhaps it pauses Section {{isdaprov|2(a)(iii)}} at least until the pro-rata partial payment is made. Again; as to why, search us. | [[(d)(iii) - Emissions Annex Provision|For]] the {{euaprov|Seller}} doesn’t deliver the full quota of allowances to be delivered, the {{euaprov|Buyer}} only has to pay the agreed strike/purchase price for those that are delivered, and the remainder of the {{euaprov|Transaction}} will be closed out as if it were a {{euaprov|Failure to Deliver}}. This is a bit curious — why wouldn’t it just be closed out under normal Section {{isdaprov|6}} close-out methodology and the undelivered portion be treated as an {{isdaprov|Unpaid Amount}}? But it probably gets to a similar place (though perhaps it pauses Section {{isdaprov|2(a)(iii)}} at least until the pro-rata partial payment is made. Again; as to why, search us. | ||
===Decoupling of {{euaprov|Phase 3}} and {{euaprov|Phase 4}} {{euaprov|Allowances}}: a wild guess=== | ===Decoupling of {{euaprov|Phase 3}} and {{euaprov|Phase 4}} {{euaprov|Allowances}}: a wild guess=== | ||
One ''possible'' reason — though it is unlikely and we are really reaching here — is the outside contingency that the {{euaprov|Seller}} is holding {{euaprov|Phase 3}} {{euaprov|Allowance}}s and they, by regulatory decree, unexpectedly become ineligible for surrender past a specified date or some such thing. (We think this is a highly remote contingency, seeing as the {{euaprov|Allowance}} futures contracts don’t differentiate between {{euaprov|Phase 3}} and {{euaprov|Phase 4}}, so market participants can hardly control which type of Allowances they hold, and it would be perverse and counterproductive behaviour for ESMA to suddenly deem part of the market ineligible.) But, look — no-one is denying regulators do ill-advised and counterintuitive things; so you never know. | One ''possible'' reason — though it is unlikely and we are really reaching here — is the outside contingency of wehat we have seen described as a “{{euaprov|Fungibility Event}}”: that the {{euaprov|Seller}} is holding {{euaprov|Phase 3}} {{euaprov|Allowance}}s and they, by regulatory decree, unexpectedly become ineligible for surrender past a specified date or some such thing. (We think this is a highly remote contingency, seeing as the {{euaprov|Allowance}} futures contracts don’t differentiate between {{euaprov|Phase 3}} and {{euaprov|Phase 4}}, so market participants can hardly control which type of Allowances they hold, and it would be perverse and counterproductive behaviour for ESMA to suddenly deem part of the market ineligible.) But, look — no-one is denying regulators do ill-advised and counterintuitive things; so you never know. | ||
But we don’t think that is it: for one thing, if that event happens there will almost certainly be plenty of notice. Phase 3 and Phase 4 Allowances currently trade as if fungible. They will rapidly decouple, and the best mechanism would be for Buyers — whom we expect to be end users, right? — to accelerate delivery of expiring {{euaprov|Phase 3}} Allowances so they can surrender those first. Sellers — financiers in the main — won’t wildly care as long as their funding break is taken care of. In any case having to wait until final settlement, and ''then'' being discovering tendered {{euaprov|Allowance}}s are worthless, seems a bit of a head-in-sand tactic. | But we don’t think that is it: for one thing, if that event happens there will almost certainly be plenty of notice. Phase 3 and Phase 4 Allowances currently trade as if fungible. They will rapidly decouple, and the best mechanism would be for Buyers — whom we expect to be end users, right? — to accelerate delivery of expiring {{euaprov|Phase 3}} Allowances so they can surrender those first. Sellers — financiers in the main — won’t wildly care as long as their funding break is taken care of. In any case having to wait until final settlement, and ''then'' being discovering tendered {{euaprov|Allowance}}s are worthless, seems a bit of a head-in-sand tactic. | ||
There’s no easy solution to this, which makes us think that even if the EU regulators do such a silly thing, they will quickly change their minds when they see the resulting market confusion and dismay. | There’s no easy solution to this, which makes us think that even if the EU regulators do such a silly thing, they will quickly change their minds when they see the resulting market confusion and dismay. | ||