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‘‘(III) means any combination of 
agreements or transactions referred to 
in subclauses (I) and (IV); 
‘‘(IV) means any option to enter 
into any agreement or transaction re-
ferred to in subclause (I) or (III); 
‘‘(V) means a master agreement 
that provides for an agreement or 
transaction referred to in subclause 
(I), (III), or (IV), together with all 
supplements to any such master 
agreement, without regard to whether 
the master agreement provides for an 
agreement or transaction that is not a 
repurchase 
agreement 
under 
this 
clause, except that the master agree-
ment shall be considered to be a re-
purchase agreement under this sub-
clause only with respect to each agree-
ment or transaction under the master 
agreement that is referred to in sub-
clause (I), (III), or (IV); and 
‘‘(VI) means any security agree-
ment or arrangement or other credit 
enhancement related to any agree-
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ment or transaction referred to in 
subclause (I), (III), (IV), or (V), in-
cluding any guarantee or reimburse-
ment obligation in connection with 
any agreement or transaction referred 
to in any such subclause. 
For purposes of this clause, the term 
‘qualified foreign government security’ 
means a security that is a direct obligation 
of, or that is fully guaranteed by, the cen-
tral government of a member of the Orga-
nization for Economic Cooperation and 
Development (as determined by regulation 
or order adopted by the appropriate Fed-
eral banking authority). 
‘‘(vi) SWAP AGREEMENT.—The term 
‘swap agreement’ means— 
‘‘(I) any agreement, including the 
terms and conditions incorporated by 
reference in any such agreement, 
which is an interest rate swap, option, 
future, or forward agreement, includ-
ing a rate floor, rate cap, rate collar, 
cross-currency rate swap, and basis 
swap; a spot, same day-tomorrow, to-
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morrow-next, forward, or other for-
eign exchange or precious metals 
agreement; a currency swap, option, 
future, or forward agreement; an eq-
uity index or equity swap, option, fu-
ture, or forward agreement; a debt 
index or debt swap, option, future, or 
forward agreement; a total return, 
credit spread or credit swap, option, 
future, or forward agreement; a com-
modity index or commodity swap, op-
tion, future, or forward agreement; or 
a weather swap, weather derivative, or 
weather option; 
‘‘(II) any agreement or trans-
action that is similar to any other 
agreement or transaction referred to 
in this clause and that is of a type 
that has been, is presently, or in the 
future becomes, the subject of recur-
rent dealings in the swap markets (in-
cluding terms and conditions incor-
porated by reference in such agree-
ment) and that is a forward, swap, fu-
ture, or option on one or more rates,
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currencies, commodities, equity securi-
ties or other equity instruments, debt 
securities or other debt instruments, 
quantitative measures associated with 
an occurrence, extent of an occur-
rence, or contingency associated with 
a financial, commercial, or economic 
consequence, or economic or financial 
indices or measures of economic or fi-
nancial risk or value; 
‘‘(III) any combination of agree-
ments or transactions referred to in 
this clause; 
‘‘(IV) any option to enter into 
any agreement or transaction referred 
to in this clause; 
‘‘(V) a master agreement that 
provides for an agreement or trans-
action referred to in subclause (I), 
(II), (III), or (IV), together with all 
supplements to any such master 
agreement, without regard to whether 
the master agreement contains an 
agreement or transaction that is not a 
swap agreement under this clause, ex-