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A {{tag|collateral}} arrangement whereby, instead of instigating a [[pledge]] or [[security interest]] of some kind, a debtor provides cash or [[financial collateral arrangement|financial collateral]] to its [[creditor]] by means of [[title transfer]] against a [[Contingencies|contingent obligation]] on the creditor to return an [[equivalent]] security should the [[exposure]] be resolved.
A {{tag|collateral}} arrangement whereby, instead of instigating a [[pledge]] or [[security interest]] of some kind, a debtor provides cash or [[financial collateral arrangement|financial collateral]] to its [[creditor]] by means of [[title transfer]] against a [[Contingencies|contingent obligation]] on the creditor to return an [[equivalent]] security should the [[exposure]] be resolved.


Known, for the purposes of the [[Financial Collateral Directive]], as a [[title transfer financial collateral arrangement|title transfer ''financial'' collateral arrangement]]. But it's the same thing among us finance lawyer freaks, and contrasted sharply with a [[security financial collateral arrangement]], which is a whole different thing.
Known, for the purposes of the [[Financial Collateral Directive]], as a [[title transfer financial collateral arrangement|''title transfer'' financial collateral arrangement]]. But it's the same thing among us finance lawyer freaks, and contrasted sharply with a [[security financial collateral arrangement|''security'' financial collateral arrangement]], which is a whole different thing.


This has profound — some might say a bit barmy — consequences when one considers the {{eureg|2015|2365|EC}} (also known, stiffly, as [[The Regulation on Transparency of Securities Financing Transactions and of Reuse]], more casually, as the [[securities financing transaction regulations]] and fondly as {{tag|SFTR}}) which, at Article 15, have some things to say about {{tag|title transfer}} collateral arrangements and what you have to tell your counterparty about them.
This has profound — some might say a bit barmy — consequences when one considers the {{eureg|2015|2365|EC}} (also known, stiffly, as [[The Regulation on Transparency of Securities Financing Transactions and of Reuse]], more casually, as the [[securities financing transaction regulations]] and fondly as {{tag|SFTR}}) which, at Article 15, have some things to say about {{tag|title transfer}} collateral arrangements and what you have to tell your counterparty about them.


As indeed do the {{tag|CASS}} rules, especially if your counterpart should ask for you to change or terminate one.
As indeed do the {{tag|CASS}} rules, especially if your counterparty should ask for you to change or terminate one.


Note also, there is a genus of lawyer (''[[Causidicus mediocris]]'') who frets that a [[TTCA]] might be [[recharacterised]] as a [[pledge]], with [[Omega|apocalyptic consequences]].
Note also, there is a genus of lawyer (''[[Causidicus mediocris]]'') who frets that a [[TTCA]] might be [[recharacterised]] as a [[pledge]], with [[Omega|apocalyptic consequences]].


===See also===
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*[[Financial Collateral Directive]]
*[[Financial Collateral Directive]]
*[[pledged collateral arrangement]]
*[[pledged collateral arrangement]]
*[[credit risk mitigation]]
*[[credit risk mitigation]]
*[[Chicken Licken]]
*[[Chicken Licken]]