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Netting opinion / resolution stay

A netting opinion is a lawyer's yearly opinion, country by country, that close-out netting would survive an insolvency there. A resolution stay lets the authority rescuing a failing bank briefly stop its counterparties ending their trades. Chapter 14

Explained in Chapter 14, The Wider Room, of Derivatives.

How it comes up, in Chapter 14
Two more terms explain why a bank asks where your client is based. A netting opinion is a lawyer's opinion, renewed each year for each country, that close-out netting would hold if a counterparty there became insolvent. Banks collect these opinions, because they let a bank treat all its trades with a client as one net sum.
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