How to Use counterparty in a Sentence

counterparty

noun
Definition of counterpartynext
  • That makes the stock go up, and the further up the stock goes, the more stock my counterparty will have to buy.
    — Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 27 Jan. 2021
  • The implication is that as the economy slows, and as big banks grow wary of counterparty risk, more small banks will be exposed.
    — The Economist, 5 Sep. 2019
  • Sometimes the broker sends the order to a public exchange like the New York Stock Exchange, which matches it with a counterparty.
    — Paul Kiernan, WSJ, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Gecamines was a key counterparty in many of Gertler’s most lucrative copper deals.
    — Thomas Wilson, Bloomberg.com, 23 Feb. 2018
  • But there is a real lack of information on the size of and counterparty to these exposures.
    — Paul J. Davies, WSJ, 8 Aug. 2018
  • Genesis is a counterparty to many in the digital-asset space and is closely watched as a gauge of the industry’s strength.
    — Lydia Beyoud, Fortune, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Often described as the central bank for central banks, the BIS acts as a counterparty and agent for central banks in their transactions.
    — Michael Hiltzik, latimes.com, 18 June 2018
  • Smith pointed out that Three Arrows has borrowed and repaid over $700 million worth of cryptocurrency in the four years that the firm has been a counterparty of Blockchain.com.
    — Ian Allison, Fortune, 8 July 2022
  • In business, sure, suddenly pulling out of a deal in order to scare your counterparty into meeting your terms can work, sometimes.
    — Jonah Shepp, Daily Intelligencer, 26 May 2018
  • These complex financial instruments are structured so that the party on the other side of the trade would pay the pension fund when bond prices rose, but the pension fund would have to pay the counterparty when bond prices fell.
    — Joe Rennison, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2022
  • The new function, called counterparty market risk, will be headed by Amélie Perrier, according to a staff memo.
    — Margot Patrick, WSJ, 9 July 2021
  • Banks rushing to buy the CDS to reduce their counterparty risk exacerbated the move, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
    — Abhinav Ramnarayan, Fortune, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Previously a counterparty could do up to $30 billion a day in reverse repos with the Fed; now that figure has expanded to $80 billion.
    — Telis Demos, WSJ, 20 Mar. 2021
  • The Fed made a separate technical move to expand the limit per counterparty on what is known as an overnight reverse repurchase agreement.
    — Telis Demos, WSJ, 20 Mar. 2021
  • These wallets have to be set up with each exchange and, therefore, expose investors to the counterparty risk of these unregulated platforms.
    — Patrick Augustin, Fortune, 8 May 2021
  • Most bank supervisors and risk officers treat a counterparty in Hong Kong like one in Heidelberg.
    — The Economist, 4 June 2020
  • Credit and reputational risk committees vet clients and transactions, and the bank puts limits on how much could be lost from a single client or counterparty.
    — Margot Patrick, WSJ, 7 June 2021
  • Such an event would have negative ripple effects on the rest of the financial system as counterparty exposure becomes more of an issue.
    — Sergei Klebnikov, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2022
  • Many banks are also in the process of adopting new rules about how to measure counterparty credit risk, which Goldman said could result in a small additional drag on its capital ratio.
    — Telis Demos, WSJ, 15 Oct. 2021
  • The appeals court’s latest decision hinged on evidence regarding whether Mr. Litvak was acting as a principal in his own interest, or as an agent for a counterparty on the trade.
    — Chelsey Dulaney, WSJ, 3 May 2018
  • At one point, Overstock hired some of the primary developers behind Counterparty, but these engineers have since left the company.
    — Cade Metz, Wired News, 27 Apr. 2015
  • In fact, counterparty perception is even more measurable than the other factors because it is based on quantifiable results.
    — WSJ, 10 Oct. 2017
  • The matter wasn’t escalated further by Mr. Shah or the counterparty-credit-risk team within the investment bank or to group-level managers, people familiar with the matter said.
    — Margot Patrick, WSJ, 7 June 2021
  • As the shares have hit historical lows, and with continued uncertainty over whether the German government has plans to step in, some investors are having second thoughts about using Deutsche Bank as a counterparty.
    — Landon Thomas Jr., New York Times, 29 Sep. 2016
  • With Citi’s deal, only one holdout counterparty, Credit Suisse , hasn’t settled with the bankruptcy estate.
    — Andrew Scurria, WSJ, 2 Oct. 2017
  • In times of market stress, two firms trading directly with one another might worry about the solvency of their counterparty and increase margin requirements.
    — Paul Kiernan, WSJ, 14 Sep. 2022
  • Bank of America notes that Coinbase had no counterparty exposure to the crypto insolvencies witnessed in the second quarter.
    — Will Canny, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2022
  • The company, Ambri, is the counterparty to the antimony supply agreement with Perpetua Resources that was announced in mid-August.
    — David Blackmon, Forbes, 2 Sep. 2021
  • However, this does mean that the ETF is exposed to any risks inherent in the futures market such as counterparty risk and potential margin and collateral requirements.
    — Simon Moore, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2021
  • The indictment alleges that the accounts were frozen as a result of an investigation into an Alameda trading counterparty.
    — Nate Dicamillo, Quartz, 28 Mar. 2023

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