Ausfallereignis

German

Etymology

Ausfall (default/failure) +‎ Ereignis (event)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈaʊ̯sfalʔɛɐ̯ˌʔaɪ̯ɡnɪs]
  • Hyphenation: Aus‧fall‧er‧eig‧nis

Noun

Ausfallereignis n (strong, genitive Ausfallereignisses, plural Ausfallereignisse)

  1. (finance, insurance) credit event, default event (a specific occurrence that triggers a payment under a credit derivative or insurance contract)
    Die Nichtzahlung von Zinsen durch den Referenzschuldner wurde offiziell als Ausfallereignis eingestuft.
    The non-payment of interest by the reference entity was officially classified as a credit event.

Declension

Synonyms

Antonyms

  • Zahlungserfüllung (fulfillment of payment obligations)
  • Vertragstreue (adherence to contract terms)

Hypernyms

  • Rechtstatsache (legal fact)
  • Trigger (trigger event)

Coordinate terms

  • Basiswert (the underlying financial instrument or debt on which a derivative is based)
  • Emittent (the entity, such as a corporation or government, that issues and sells securities)
  • Gläubiger (the party to whom a debt is owed by the debtor)
  • Kreditausfallswap (a financial derivative used to hedge credit risk or speculate on default)
  • Referenzschuldner (the legal entity whose credit risk is transferred in a credit derivative contract)
  • Sicherungsgeber (the party providing credit protection in a swap agreement; the seller)
  • Sicherungsnehmer (the party buying credit protection in a swap agreement; the buyer)
  • ausfallen (to fail/default)
  • Ereignisprotokoll (event log)
  • Trigger-Klausel (contractual provision defining the credit event)

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