Determination Agent Clause Samples

The Determination Agent clause designates a specific party responsible for making decisions or calculations required under the agreement. Typically, this agent may be tasked with determining values, events, or outcomes that affect the rights and obligations of the parties, such as calculating interest rates, settlement amounts, or confirming the occurrence of certain events. By assigning this role, the clause ensures that there is a clear and authoritative source for resolving uncertainties or ambiguities, thereby facilitating smooth contract administration and reducing the potential for disputes.
Determination Agent. (A) Subject as provided in the Conditions and the Determination Agency Agreement, the Issuer shall use all reasonable efforts to procure that there shall at all times be a Determination Agent for so long as any of the ETP Securities are outstanding. If the Determination Agent resigns or its appointment is terminated for any reason, the Issuer shall use all reasonable efforts to appoint a reputable entity that provides services of a similar type to those required of the Determination Agent under the Relevant Provisions or a leading bank or investment banking firm engaged in the interbank market (or, if appropriate, money, swap, commodity or over-the-counter commodity futures and options or index options market) that the Issuer reasonably determines is capable of making the calculation(s) required to be made by the Determination Agent under the Relevant Provisions to act as such in its place. (B) The Determination Agent shall not be liable (whether directly or indirectly, in contract, in tort or otherwise) to the Issuer, any ETP Securityholder, any other Programme Party or any other person for any Loss incurred by any such person that arises out of or in connection with the performance by the Determination Agent of its obligations under the Determination Agency Agreement, the Conditions and the other Relevant Provisions provided that nothing shall relieve the Determination Agent from any Loss arising by reason of acts or omissions constituting bad faith, fraud or gross negligence of the Determination Agent (any such act or omission, a "Determination Agent Breach"). (1) If the Determination Agent would, but for the operation of this Condition 10.6(B)(1), be held liable for any Loss arising as the result of a Determination Agent Breach, the Determination Agent shall nevertheless incur no liability to the Issuer, any ETP Securityholder, any other Programme Party or any other person if such Determination Agent Breach results solely and directly from either (i) the failure by any other Programme Party to provide any notice, instruction or direction which such Programme Party is required or permitted to give under the Conditions or any relevant Programme Document or (ii) a delay in the delivery by any other Programme Party of any notice, instruction or direction which such Programme Party is required or permitted to give to the Determination Agent under the Conditions or any relevant Programme Document. (2) If the Determination Agent would, but for the operation o...
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Determination Agent. The Determination Agent is hereby appointed to act as Determination Agent with respect to each Series of ETP Securities. The Determination Agent shall be appointed upon the terms set out herein and to perform the services described herein until termination of this Determination Agency Agreement as provided in Clause 10, and the Determination Agent accepts such appointment and agrees to assume the obligations set out below.
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  • Calculation Agent The Calculation Agent is Party A.

  • APPOINTMENT OF THE CALCULATION AGENT The Calculation Agent is appointed, and the Calculation Agent agrees to act, as Calculation Agent in respect of each Series of Notes described in the Schedule (the Relevant Notes) for the purposes set out in clause 2 and on the terms of this Agreement. The agreement of the parties that this Agreement is to apply to each Series of Relevant Notes shall be evidenced by the manuscript annotation and signature in counterpart of the Schedule.

  • DUTIES OF CALCULATION AGENT The Calculation Agent shall perform the duties expressed to be performed by it in the Conditions in respect of each Series of Notes in respect of which it is appointed as Calculation Agent. As soon as practicable after the relevant time on each Interest Determination Date or such time on such date as the Conditions may require to be calculated any rate or amount, any quotation to be obtained or any determination or calculation to be made by the Calculation Agent, the Calculation Agent shall determine such rate and calculate the Interest Amounts in respect of each denomination of the Notes for the relevant Interest Accrual Period, Interest Period or Interest Payment Date, calculate the Redemption Amount or Instalment Amount, obtain such quotation and/or make such determination or calculation, as the case may be, and cause the Rate of Interest and the Interest Amounts for each Interest Accrual Period, Interest Period or Interest Payment Date and, if required, the relevant Interest Payment Date and, if required to be calculated, any Redemption Amount or Instalment Amount to be notified to any other Calculation Agent appointed in respect of the Notes that is to make a further calculation upon receipt of such information, the Issuing and Principal Paying Agent, the Issuer, each of the Paying Agents, the relevant Noteholders and, if the relevant Notes are to be listed on a stock exchange and the rules of such exchange so require, such exchange as soon as possible after their determination but in no event later than (i) the commencement of the relevant Interest Period, if determined prior to such time, in the case of notification to such exchange of an Rate of Interest and Interest Amount, or (ii) in all other cases, the fourth Business Day after such determination. If the Calculation Agent at any material time does not make any determination or calculation or take any action that it is required to do pursuant to the Conditions, it shall forthwith notify the Issuer, the Guarantor, the Trustee and the Issuing and Principal Paying Agent.

  • Settlement Administrator 52. The Settlement Administrator shall administer various aspects of the Settlement as described in the following paragraph and perform other functions specified for the Settlement Administrator elsewhere in this Agreement. These functions include, but are not limited to, administering the Notice Program and distributing funds from the Administration Account as provided in this Agreement. Amegy and Class Counsel shall jointly oversee the Settlement Administrator. 53. In addition to other responsibilities described in this Agreement, the Settlement Administrator’s duties are as follows: a. Obtain from Class Counsel and Amegy the Settlement Class Members’ names and addresses (to the extent available), and verify and update the addresses received through the National Change of Address database, for the purpose of administering the Notice Program, and later mailing distribution checks to Past Account Holder Settlement Class Members, and to Current Account Holder Settlement Class Members where it is not feasible or reasonable for Amegy to make the payment by a credit to the Settlement Class Members’ Accounts; b. Administer the Notice Program as described in Section VIII; c. Establish and maintain a Post Office box for requests for exclusion from the Settlement Class; d. Establish and maintain the Settlement Website; e. Establish and maintain an automated toll-free telephone line for Settlement Class Members to call with Settlement-related questions, and answer the questions of Settlement Class Members who call with or otherwise communicate such inquiries; f. Respond to any mailed Settlement Class Member inquiries; g. Process all requests for exclusion from the Settlement Class; h. Provide weekly reports and, no later than five (5) days after the end of the Opt- Out Period, a final report to Class Counsel and Amegy summarizing the number of requests for exclusion received that week, the total number of exclusion requests received to date, and other pertinent information; i. In advance of the Final Approval Hearing, prepare an affidavit to submit to the Court that identifies each Settlement Class Member who timely and properly requested exclusion from the Settlement Class; j. Process and transmit distributions to Settlement Class Members from the Administration Account; k. Pay invoices, expenses and costs approved by Class Counsel as provided in this Agreement; and l. Perform any other Settlement-administration-related function at the instruction of Class Counsel and Amegy, including, but not limited to, verifying that Settlement Amount has been distributed as required by Sections XII and XIII of the Agreement. All costs that the Settlement Administrator incurs which are permitted by this Agreement shall be paid from the Settlement Amount.