Derivatives · glossary

Single agreement

Clause 1.3, which makes the master agreement, the Schedule, the annexes and every Confirmation one contract. It lets all the trades net to one sum, so an insolvency office-holder cannot cherry-pick. Banks hold a legal opinion for each country that this would survive an insolvency there. Clause 1.3 · Chapter 4

Explained in Chapter 4, One Agreement: the Master, the Schedule and the People Who Negotiate It, of Derivatives.

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