The Bond Market Association
New York • Washington • London
www.bondmarkets.com
International Securities Market Association
Rigistrasse 60, P.O. Box, CH-8033, Zürich
www.isma.org
2000 VERSION
TBMA/ISMA
GLOBAL MASTER REPURCHASE AGREEMENT
Dated as of _________________
Between:
______________________ ("Party A")
and
______________________ ("Party B")
1.
Applicability
(a)
From time to time the parties hereto may enter into transactions in which one party,
acting through a Designated Office, ("Seller") agrees to sell to the other, acting
through a Designated Office, ("Buyer") securities and financial instruments
("Securities") (subject to paragraph 1(c), other than equities and Net Paying
Securities) against the payment of the purchase price by Buyer to Seller, with a
simultaneous agreement by Buyer to sell to Seller Securities equivalent to such
Securities at a date certain or on demand against the payment of the repurchase price
by Seller to Buyer.
(b)
Each such transaction (which may be a repurchase transaction ("Repurchase
Transaction") or a buy and sell back transaction ("Buy/Sell Back Transaction")) shall
be referred to herein as a "Transaction" and shall be governed by this Agreement,
including any supplemental terms or conditions contained in Annex I hereto, unless
otherwise agreed in writing.
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(c)
If this Agreement may be applied to (i)
Buy/Sell Back Transactions, this shall be specified in Annex I hereto, and the
provisions of the Buy/Sell Back Annex shall apply to such Buy/Sell Back
Transactions;
(ii)
Net Paying Securities, this shall be specified in Annex I hereto and the
provisions of Annex I, paragraph 1(b) shall apply to Transactions involving Net
Paying Securities.
(d)
If Transactions are to be effected under this Agreement by either party as an agent,
this shall be specified in Annex I hereto, and the provisions of the Agency Annex shall
apply to such Agency Transactions.
2.
Definitions
(a)
"Act of Insolvency" shall occur with respect to any party hereto upon (i)
its making a general assignment for the benefit of, entering into a
reorganisation, arrangement, or composition with creditors; or
(ii)
its admitting in writing that it is unable to pay its debts as they become due; or
(iii)
its seeking, consenting to or acquiescing in the appointment of any trustee,
administrator, receiver or liquidator or analogous officer of it or any material
part of its property; or
(iv)
the presentation or filing of a petition in respect of it (other than by the
counterparty to this Agreement in respect of any obligation under this
Agreement) in any court or before any agency alleging or for the bankruptcy,
winding-up or insolvency of such party (or any analogous proceeding) or
seeking any reorganisation, arrangement, composition, re-adjustment,
administration, liquidation, dissolution or similar relief under any present or
future statute, law or regulation, such petition (except in the case of a petition
for winding-up or any analogous proceeding, in respect of which no such 30
day period shall apply) not having been stayed or dismissed within 30 days of
its filing; or
(v)
the appointment of a receiver, administrator, liquidator or trustee or analogous
officer of such party or over all or any material part of such party's property; or
(vi)
the convening of any meeting of its creditors for the purposes of considering a
voluntary arrangement as referred to in section 3 of the Insolvency Act 1986
(or any analogous proceeding);
(b)
"Agency Transaction", the meaning specified in paragraph 1 of the Agency Annex;
(c)
"Appropriate Market", the meaning specified in paragraph 10;
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