Contingent Forward Contract In Bexar
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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.
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.
In a FX forward contract, the settlement date, also known as the 'value date', maturity date' or 'delivery date' is the date at which delivery and payment of the agreed-upon amounts take place.
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.
A contingent contract is a legal agreement in which the terms and conditions only apply or take effect if a specific event occurs. Essentially, the parties involved agree to perform actions or obligations based on the occurrence or non-occurrence of a particular event in the future.
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.
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.
