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Translations: creating legally effective smart derivatives contracts

13 June 2024 / Author(s): Ciarán McGonagle
Issue: September 2021 / Categories: Feature

Smart derivatives contracts have the potential to deliver significant efficiency benefits to derivatives market participants. However, automating legal documentation is a specialised task and lawyers have a crucial role to play in ensuring automation is legally and operationally effective. Developing smart derivatives contracts will require lawyers to enhance the levels of standardisation within industry standard contracts and contribute towards the development of legal agreement data models that will serve as the foundation for smart derivatives contracts.

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