Sentence examples for counterparty to from inspiring English sources

Bear is a counterparty to some $10 trillion of over-the-counter swaps.

ABN AMRO, for example, is counterparty to derivatives worth an estimated €10 trillion in notional principal.

The US government, in one form or another, is a counterparty to every single financial player in the world.

If the investment goes bad, the customer suddenly becomes a counterparty to whom the bank owes no obligation at all.

But as one hedge fund executive said: "Lehman was a counterparty to everyone — nobody really knows how it will end".

In their simplest definition, derivatives are contracts that promise payments from one investor, or "counterparty," to another, depending on future events.

The current version of the legislation provides important legal certainty for all physical commodity transactions (not including agricultural commodities) entered into on a counterparty-to-counterparty basis or on an electronic trading facility.

Commodity and financial futures allow counterparties to speculate on or hedge exposure to many assets.

A.I.G. has said it does not expect all its counterparties to exercise this right.

The Treasury wanted central counterparties to clear as many OTC derivatives as they could.

A.I.G. said that it did not expect all of its counterparties to exercise that option, however.