Arm's Length Transaction

  

No friends and family dealing here. It was a fair market deal. The handshake was done with a fully extended arm. no hugging. The term implies that there was nothing discounted or special about the terms of a given deal. It was ..."market."

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Finance: What is a regular way contract?1 Views

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Finance a la shmoop what is a regular way contract?

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alright well for centuries the church has condemned anything but the regular [Men appear in church]

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way but then some wise guy posited a question about anything but so then some

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wise Torah scribe added an extra letter T there and well everything was a mess [Person wiping letter T out]

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and well "regular way" just stopped really being a thing anyway in

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finance land regular way simply describes a securities trade when trades

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settle regular way, it means that they follow the normal T plus 3, T plus 5, T

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plus whatever days that's accorded whatever trade it is they're making a

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corporate debt trade well that's usually T plus 3 or 3 days regular way would

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imply that the corporate debt will settle in the regular three-day time [Amount owed appears on corporate debt timeline]

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period the foreign exchange trade for a stock well that's usually 2 days T plus

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2 would be the regular way the basic idea is that there are so many trades

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and trade types now that happen in a non regular way because of some weird

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restriction or government filing requirement or computer hacking that

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happened out there or other global event that precluded things going the au

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natural or regular way that noting when something trades regular way [People shouting at trading company]

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actually has become a thing like we actually have to call it out when things

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happen normally and if you have any questions about what's kosher or not in

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regular ways well we suggest you consult your religious scribe or book in

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whatever form it comes in it's not our business [Man asking priest questions]

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