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.
The exporter is concerned that the Canadian dollar may strengthen from its current rate of 1.0500 and it would receive fewer Canadian dollars per US dollar in one year. The Canadian exporter, therefore, enters into a forward contract to sell $1 million a year from now at the forward rate of US$1 = C$1.0655.
Examples are employee stock options, warrants and other convertible securities, and investments with embedded options such as callable bonds or contingent convertible bonds.
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.
A Forward FX contract is considered a financial derivative. Under IFRS 9, a derivative must be initially measured at fair value and subsequent value changes are recognized. Unless you are applying hedge accounting then movements must be posted to the profit or loss account.
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.
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.
Contingent liability insurance provides coverage for a variety of situations outside your control. Some examples of contingent liability include: Product warranties. Ongoing lawsuits.