The Jolly Contrarian
A stroll through the brambles of law, management, philosophy, language, technology, cricket, high finance and the verisimilitude of Toto's 1981 smash “Africa”.
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Fixing the netting problem
How is it done, and how might we do it differently?
By now I hope the netting problem is clear: regulations require each dealer to obtain lengthy legal opinions for every master agreement in its portfolio. A full service broker dealer may...
The gruesome tale of Little Swap-a-Thing
How an existential crisis in a small town in Germany led to modern capital regulation, and how that all led to the written and reasoned netting opinion.
Little Swap-a-Thing
The boy and his shadow
Banca Valle del Silicone
Non era Lorenzo Medici
Io ho cedole fissate
Tu le hai variate
Vogliamo la copertura
Fissiamo la procedura—Otto Büchstein, Eggfried
When we left off last time Silicon Valley Bank had coll...
Borrowing short and lending long
This is the first chapter in a new series about close-out netting, and the tiresome, hideous problem of close-out netting opinions. If you haven’t already, you might want to check out the introductory prologue, already released. It is here....
The Netting Problem
‘Netting Eagle, Von Sachsen-Rhemptonn, 1986
You’re all here for eternity which, I hardly need tell you, is a heck of a long time.
—Rowan Atkinson, Welcome to Hell
Every now and then I field an unsolicited offer from someone to help...
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