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ture delivery on, or subject to the 
rules of, a contract market or board 
of trade that is cleared by such clear-
ing organization, or commodity option 
traded on, or subject to the rules of, 
a contract market or board of trade 
that is cleared by such clearing orga-
nization; 
‘‘(V) with respect to a commodity 
options dealer, a commodity option; 
‘‘(VI) any other agreement or 
transaction that is similar to any 
agreement or transaction referred to 
in this clause; 
‘‘(VII) any combination of the 
agreements or transactions referred to 
in this clause; 
‘‘(VIII) any option to enter into 
any agreement or transaction referred 
to in this clause; 
‘‘(IX) a master agreement that 
provides for an agreement or trans-
action referred to in subclause (I), 
(II), (III), (IV), (V), (VI), (VII), or 
(VIII), together with all supplements 
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to any such master agreement, with-
out regard to whether the master 
agreement provides for an agreement 
or transaction that is not a com-
modity contract under this clause, ex-
cept that the master agreement shall 
be considered to be a commodity con-
tract under this clause only with re-
spect to each agreement or trans-
action under the master agreement 
that is referred to in subclause (I), 
(II), (III), (IV), (V), (VI), (VII), or 
(VIII); or 
‘‘(X) any security agreement or 
arrangement or other credit enhance-
ment related to any agreement or 
transaction referred to in this clause, 
including any guarantee or reimburse-
ment obligation in connection with 
any agreement or transaction referred 
to in this clause. 
‘‘(iv) 
FORWARD
CONTRACT.—The 
term ‘forward contract’ means— 
‘‘(I) a contract (other than a 
commodity contract) for the purchase, 
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sale, or transfer of a commodity or 
any similar good, article, service, 
right, or interest which is presently or 
in the future becomes the subject of 
dealing in the forward contract trade, 
or product or byproduct thereof, with 
a maturity date more than 2 days 
after the date on which the contract is 
entered into, including a repurchase 
transaction, reverse repurchase trans-
action, 
consignment, 
lease, 
swap, 
hedge transaction, deposit, loan, op-
tion, allocated transaction, unallocated 
transaction, or any other similar 
agreement; 
‘‘(II) any combination of agree-
ments or transactions referred to in 
subclauses (I) and (III); 
‘‘(III) any option to enter into 
any agreement or transaction referred 
to in subclause (I) or (II); 
‘‘(IV) a master agreement that 
provides for an agreement or trans-
action referred to in subclauses (I), 
(II), or (III), together with all supple-
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ments to any such master agreement, 
without regard to whether the master 
agreement provides for an agreement 
or transaction that is not a forward 
contract under this clause, except that 
the master agreement shall be consid-
ered to be a forward contract under 
this clause only with respect to each 
agreement or transaction under the 
master agreement that is referred to 
in subclause (I), (II), or (III); or 
‘‘(V) any security agreement or 
arrangement or other credit enhance-
ment related to any agreement or 
transaction referred to in subclause 
(I), (II), (III), or (IV), including any 
guarantee or reimbursement obliga-
tion in connection with any agreement 
or transaction referred to in any such 
subclause. 
‘‘(v) REPURCHASE AGREEMENT.—The 
term ‘repurchase agreement’ (including a 
reverse repurchase agreement)— 
‘‘(I) means an agreement, includ-
ing related terms, which provides for 
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the transfer of one or more certifi-
cates of deposit, mortgage-related se-
curities (as such term is defined in 
section 3 of the Securities Exchange 
Act of 1934), mortgage loans, inter-
ests in mortgage-related securities or 
mortgage loans, eligible bankers’ ac-
ceptances, qualified foreign govern-
ment securities (defined for purposes 
of this clause as a security that is a 
direct obligation of, or that is fully 
guaranteed by, the central government 
of a member of the Organization for 
Economic Cooperation and Develop-
ment, as determined by regulation or 
order adopted by the appropriate Fed-
eral banking authority), or securities 
that are direct obligations of, or that 
are fully guaranteed by, the United 
States or any agency of the United 
States against the transfer of funds 
by the transferee of such certificates 
of deposit, eligible bankers’ accept-
ances, securities, mortgage loans, or 
interests with a simultaneous agree-
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ment by such transferee to transfer to 
the transferor thereof certificates of 
deposit, eligible bankers’ acceptances, 
securities, mortgage loans, or interests 
as described above, at a date certain 
not later than 1 year after such trans-
fers or on demand, against the trans-
fer of funds, or any other similar 
agreement; 
‘‘(II) does not include any repur-
chase obligation under a participation 
in a commercial mortgage loan, unless 
the Agency determines by regulation, 
resolution, or order to include any 
such participation within the meaning 
of such term; 
‘‘(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 
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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, 
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; 
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‘‘(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-
cept that the master agreement shall 
be considered to be a swap agreement 
under this clause only with respect to 
each agreement or transaction under 
the master agreement that is referred 
to in subclause (I), (II), (III), or (IV); 
and 
‘‘(VI) any security agreement or 
arrangement or other credit enhance-
ment related to any agreements or 
transactions referred to in subclause 
(I), (II), (III), (IV), or (V), including 
any guarantee or reimbursement obli-
gation in connection with any agree-
ment or transaction referred to in any 
such subclause. 
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‘‘(vii) 
TREATMENT
OF
MASTER 
AGREEMENT
AS
ONE
AGREEMENT.—Any 
master agreement for any contract or 
agreement described in any preceding 
clause of this subparagraph (or any master 
agreement for such master agreement or 
agreements), together with all supplements 
to such master agreement, shall be treated 
as a single agreement and a single quali-
fied financial contract. If a master agree-
ment contains provisions relating to agree-
ments or transactions that are not them-
selves qualified financial contracts, the 
master agreement shall be deemed to be a 
qualified financial contract only with re-
spect to those transactions that are them-
selves qualified financial contracts. 
‘‘(viii) TRANSFER.—The term ‘trans-
fer’ means every mode, direct or indirect, 
absolute or conditional, voluntary or invol-
untary, of disposing of or parting with 
property or with an interest in property, 
including retention of title as a security in-
terest and foreclosure of the equity of re-
demption of the regulated entity. 
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‘‘(E) CERTAIN PROTECTIONS IN EVENT OF 
APPOINTMENT
OF
CONSERVATOR.—Notwith-
standing any other provision of this section, any 
other Federal law, or the law of any State 
(other than paragraph (10) of this subsection 
and subsection (b)(9)(B)), no person shall be 
stayed or prohibited from exercising— 
‘‘(i) any right such person has to 
cause the termination, liquidation, or accel-
eration of any qualified financial contract 
with a regulated entity in a conservator-
ship based upon a default under such fi-
nancial contract which is enforceable under 
applicable noninsolvency law; 
‘‘(ii) any right under any security 
agreement or arrangement or other credit 
enhancement relating to 1 or more such 
qualified financial contracts; or 
‘‘(iii) any right to offset or net out 
any termination values, payment amounts, 
or other transfer obligations arising under 
or in connection with such qualified finan-
cial contracts. 
‘‘(F) CLARIFICATION.—No provision of law 
shall be construed as limiting the right or 
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power of the Agency, or authorizing any court 
or agency to limit or delay in any manner, the 
right or power of the Agency to transfer any 
qualified financial contract in accordance with 
paragraphs (9) and (10), or to disaffirm or re-
pudiate any such contract in accordance with 
subsection (d)(1). 
‘‘(G) WALKAWAY
CLAUSES
NOT
EFFEC-
TIVE.— 
‘‘(i) IN
GENERAL.—Notwithstanding 
the provisions of subparagraphs (A) and 
(E), and sections 403 and 404 of the Fed-
eral Deposit Insurance Corporation Im-
provement Act of 1991, no walkaway 
clause shall be enforceable in a qualified fi-
nancial contract of a regulated entity in 
default. 
‘‘(ii) WALKAWAY CLAUSE DEFINED.— 
For purposes of this subparagraph, the 
term ‘walkaway clause’ means a provision 
in a qualified financial contract that, after 
calculation of a value of a party’s position 
or an amount due to or from 1 of the par-
ties in accordance with its terms upon ter-
mination, liquidation, or acceleration of the 
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