counterparty
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of counterparty
1980–85; counter- + party (in the legal sense “a signatory”)
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By 2024, CoinEx had replaced Binance as the largest foreign counterparty to Nobitex, according to the blockchain data.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
Novartis also was the counterparty in the complicated 2014 deal in which GSK swapped its oncology portfolio for the Swiss firm’s vaccines business.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 9, 2026
Indexing presumes general market efficiency: The counterparty to an active seller is an active buyer; both are confident, well-staffed and diligent.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026
He believes that whatever Cohen may have bought “should stand out like a sore thumb” when the counterparty discloses its equity holdings in mid-May or discloses a 5% position in a company.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 26, 2026
“Never once has any counterparty been willing to sell me my list at my marks,” he wrote in an e-mail.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
The second is the maturation of Chinese alternatives in key technologies—certain chips, AI agents, batteries —which has lowered the perceived cost of cutting Western counterparties out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026
“We are in active negotiations with multiple counterparties, but as of today, we’ve not executed a definitive lease agreement,” Fermi Chief Financial Officer Miles Everson said on a conference call Monday morning.
From Barron's ● Mar. 30, 2026
These volumes must be returned to counterparties roughly evenly over the next three years, analyst Adrian Prendergast says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026
The Wall Street Journal, citing people familiar with the matter, reported that the New York Fed on Friday reached out to potential trading counterparties on the yen and the U.S. dollar.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 26, 2026
Oddly, as Mike Burry’s investors grew restive, his Wall Street counterparties took a new and envious interest in what he was up to.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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