Product Description

Mastering the ISDA Master Agreement 1992 and 2002, will provide a practical, clear and useful foundation for the fledgling negotiator as well as supporting them with a good overview of the legal, credit and operational issues inherent in the ISDA Master Agreement.

Mastering the ISDA Master Agreement 1992 and 2002 is designed to build on the success of the first edition by extending coverage of to the new 2002 ISDA Master Agreement, and extends the coverage of the first edition.

Once again this book will provide the many new entrants globally to derivatives documentation with a practical negotiation guide to both the 1992 and 2002 Agreements so they can be approached confidently.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #147259 in Books
• Published on: 2003-12-04
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 768 pages

From the Back Cover

“Discussing both legal aspects and the operational environment of the ISDA Master Agreement, this book will certainly prove to be much more consulted, and well appreciated as its predecessor was. The complicated made simple, this is a must-have for any one regularly confronted with the ISDA Master Agreement or it’s consequences.”

Sybrand  de Vries, Regional Manager (Europe), ABN AMRO Bank NV

“The thorough section by section review and summary makes this an essential companion to the original edition. Together with the new developments chapter, this is required reading for anybody new to negotiating, as well as those who want to keep right up to date with the market.”

Keith Spiller, Executive Director, UBS Investment Bank

“Again a great a great piece of work, this practical guidance will help the market to overcome the burden of a new agreement and to understand the concept behind it. This book definitely supports the growth of the derivatives market and helps to establish the new 2002 ISDA Master Agreement.”

Wilfried F. Schütte, Senior Legal Councel, DZ-Bank AG

“This book keeps the qualities of the predecessor intact. The ‘simple glossary’ explanations and clear references to the differences between the 1992 and the 2002 Agreement are valuable tools for practitioners intending to enjoy the fruits of staying in ‘ISDA Heaven’."

Svend Erik Walther, Documentation Manager, Danske Bank A/S

Mastering the ISDA Master Agreement 1992 and 2002, will provide a practical, clear and useful foundation for the fledgling negotiator as well as supporting them with a good overview of the legal, credit and operational issues inherent in the ISDA Master Agreement.

About the Author

Paul Harding

has worked in several UK and foreign banks in London in credit, marketing and documentation roles. Since 1990 he has been involved with derivatives documentation, and was a well-known negotiator in the City with Barclays Capital Securities and Hill Samuel Bank, where he was head of treasury documentation.

In 1997 he founded Derivatives Documentation Ltd, a derivatives consultancy and project management company based in the City of London and providing negotiation, recruitment and in-house training services in derivatives documentation. Its clients include many of the world’s leading banks.

Paul Harding brings over ten years’ in-depth market experience to the subject of this book.

Customer Reviews

A lawyer
This is an incredibly useful book for professionals involved in the preparation and negotiation of ISDA documentation. The overview of the Master Agreements is very clear (and helpfully set out) with legal and commercial issues being identified and addressed succinctly but in enough detail to be meaningful. On my desk the book comes into its own in its review of the negotiation of Schedules and, although it cannot cover off all possible counterparties or every issue on complex transactions, it is the best treatment of these documents I have come across. Highly recommended.