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the money was handed over. One bank dared Paulson to cause a default but ultimately backed down and posted the required collateral, a huge reverse margin call. The amateurs were putting the screws to the pros. Paulson sold a bit of his CDS protection, to lock in some profits, but he clung
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the trade. Greene owned so much protection, and put so little down, that when subprime-mortgage prices rose just slightly in late 2006, he received margin calls from Merrill Lynch, forcing him to fork over several million dollars from other accounts just to keep his brokerage firm from closing out his trade
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10/21/1987 9.10 Interest rates continue to fall; deficit talks in Washington; bargain hunting 10/26/1987 —8.28 Fear of budget deficits; margin calls; reaction to falling foreign stocks 9/3/1946 —6.73 “No basic reason for the assault on prices” 5/28/1962 —6.68 Kennedy forces
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decentralization into three categories: centralized, semi-decentralized and completely decentralized. Centralized Characteristics: Custodial, uses centralized price feeds, centrally-determined interest rates, centrally-provided liquidity for margin calls Examples: Salt, BlockFi, Nexo and Celsius Semi-Decentralized (has one or more of these characteristics but not all) Characteristics: Non-custodial, decentralized price feeds, permissionless
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initiation of margin calls, permissionless margin liquidity, decentralized interest rate determination, decentralized platform development/updates Examples: Compound, MakerDAO, dYdX, bZx Completely Decentralized Characteristics: Every component is decentralized Examples: No
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original advisers on debt structuring, in terms of whether they have fully explained the “option value” being conceded by potentially allowing such a hold-out. Margin calls Similarly, borrowing against securities raises specific problems. These relate to the power given to a lender to divest the security under certain circumstances. The lender
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significant it is, not appreciating the significant option value associated with decisions to sell (or buy) securities. In practice, the market can anticipate some major margin calls or defaults, and consequently the price of affected securities is likely to be adversely affected. Under these circumstances, the duty of the lender is to
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–10 171 duty of care, 105 engagement letters, 122–3 fees, 115–18 financial restructuring, 119–20 hold-out value, 120–1 honesty, 101–5 margin-calls, 121 practical issues, 110–15 promises, 100–1 restructuring fees, 121–2 syndication, 118–22 truth, 101–5 Code of Ethics, 47–50, 147–51
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London Stock Exchange, 65, 71, 84 long-term values, 147 Lords Grand Committee, 27 LTCM, 23 lying, 101 MacIntyre, Alasdair, 38 management behaviour, 131–2 margin-calls, 121 market abuse, 14, 70, 75, 86–8, 155 market announcements, 88 market behaviours, 74 market capitalism, 12–14 market communications, 88 market liquidity, 95
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