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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CoinEx became the largest foreign counterparty to Iran’s Nobitex by 2024, replacing Binance, which the U.S. penalized.
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
It signals to every counterparty transacting with a designated party that it could be next, inducing it to sever its ties to Iranian-linked finance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 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
America’s counterparties might be starting to think differently about the risks of dollar dependency.
From Barron's ● May 27, 2026
Starting with a large Microsoft deal, CoreWeave has leveraged customer contracts with secure counterparties to borrow money to build expensive data centers.
From Barron's ● Feb. 26, 2026
The WSJ reported, citing people familiar with the matter, that the New York Fed had reached out to potential trading counterparties at the direction of the Treasury Department on Friday for so-called rate checks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 26, 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
“I am actually protesting to my counterparties that there must be fraud in the marketplace for credit default swaps to be at all-time lows,” Burry wrote in an e-mail to an investor he trusted.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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