While a forward commitment contains an obligation to carry out the transaction as planned, a contingent claim contains the right to carry out the transaction but not the obligation. As a result, the payoff profiles between these derivatives vary, and that affects how the contracts themselves trade.
Matt is both 40 years old and not 40 years old. That statement is a contingent statement. It doesn't have to be true (as tautologies do) or false (as contradictions do). Instead, its truth depends on the way the world is.
Contingent liability insurance provides coverage for a variety of situations outside your control. Some examples of contingent liability include: Product warranties. Ongoing lawsuits.
When an event or situation is contingent, it means that it depends on some other event or fact. For example, sometimes buying a new house has to be contingent upon someone else buying your old house first. That way you don't end up owning two houses!
Examples are employee stock options, warrants and other convertible securities, and investments with embedded options such as callable bonds or contingent convertible bonds.
A deal contingent forward is a specialised forward foreign exchange (FX) contract. The hedging customer is only obliged to fulfil the contract if a planned major transaction, such as an acquisition, occurs.
Common types of contingent claim derivatives include options and modified versions of swaps, forward contracts, and futures contracts. Any derivative instrument that isn't a contingent claim is called a forward commitment. Vanilla swaps, forward and futures are all considered forward commitments.
A "contingent contract" is a contract to do or not to do something, if some event, collateral to such contract, does or does not happen.
Forward Contracts can broadly be classified as 'Fixed Date Forward Contracts' and 'Option Forward Contracts'. In Fixed Date Forward Contracts, the buying/selling of foreign exchange takes place at a specified future date i.e. a fixed maturity date.