Counterparty
A counterparty (sometimes contraparty) is a term most commonly used in the financial services industry to describe a legal entity, unincorporated entity or collection of entities to which an exposure to financial risk might exist. The word became widely used in the 1980s, particularly at the time of the Basel I in 1988. Sometimes it used instead of unicorporation. The legal entity notion is using as counterparty.
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