S&P Rating Event definition

S&P Rating Event means an Initial S&P Rating Event or a Subsequent S&P Rating Event.
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S&P Rating Event means an event which would cause S&P to downgrade, withdraw or place on "Creditwatch" with negative implications its rating of the Receivables facility.
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Examples of S&P Rating Event in a sentence

  • Such Additional Termination Event will be deemed to have occurred on the tenth day following the Subsequent S&P Rating Event with Barclays as the sole Affected Party and all Transactions as Affected Transactions.

  • A) If Barclays does not take any of the measures described in sub-paragraph (i) above, such failure shall not be or give rise to an Event of Default but shall constitute an Additional Termination Event (a Rating Downgrade Termination Event) with respect to Barclays which shall be deemed to have occurred on the thirtieth day following the Initial S&P Rating Event with Barclays as the sole Affected Party and all Transactions as Affected Transactions.

  • If the action set out in sub-paragraph (ii)(A) above is taken at any time, all collateral (or the equivalent thereof, as appropriate) transferred by Barclays pursuant to sub-paragraphs (i)(A) or (ii)(B) above will be returned to Barclays and Barclays will not be required to transfer any additional collateral in respect of such Subsequent S&P Rating Event.

  • This Agreement sets out four options for the definition of Initial S&P Rating Event, Subsequent S&P Rating Event and Credit Support Amount (in each case, being "Option 1", "Option 2", "Option 3" and "Option 4" respectively and each a "Replacement Option").

  • Such Additional Termination Event will be deemed to have occurred on the thirtieth day following the Subsequent S&P Rating Event with Party A as the sole Affected Party and all Transactions as Affected Transactions.

  • If any of sub-paragraphs (i)(B), (i)(C) or (i)(D) above are satisfied at any time, all collateral (or the equivalent thereof, as appropriate) transferred by Barclays pursuant to sub-paragraph (i)(A) will be returned to Barclays and Barclays will not be required to transfer any additional collateral in respect of such Initial S&P Rating Event.

  • If, at the time an Initial S&P Rating Event occurs and is continuing, Party A does not post collateral or take any other action pursuant to sub-paragraph (i)(A) of this Part 5(g) above, such failure shall not be or give rise to an Event of Default but shall constitute an Additional Termination Event with respect to Party A which shall be deemed to have occurred on the last day of the Initial Remedy Period with Party A as the sole Affected Party and all Transactions as Affected Transactions.

  • If (i) an Initial S&P Rating Event hasoccurred and Barclays has failed to post collateral in accordance with the provisions of the Credit Support Annex pursuant to sub-paragraph (i)(A) above or (ii) a Subsequent S&P Rating Event has occurred, Barclays has provided collateral pursuant to sub-paragraph (i)(A) above and Barclays fails to continue to post collateral, this paragraph 4(C)(iii) shall not apply.

  • Further, it shall constitute an additional termination event if S&P Rating Event 2 occurs and the relevant swap counterparty does not take any of the measures described in (B) above.

  • If (i) an Initial S&P Rating Event has occurred and Barclays has failed to post collateral in accordance with the provisions of the Credit Support Annex pursuant to sub-paragraph (i)(A) above or (ii) a Subsequent S&P Rating Event has occurred, Barclays has provided collateral pursuant to sub-paragraph (i)(A) above and Barclays fails to continue to post collateral, this paragraph 4(C)(iii) shall not apply.

Related to S&P Rating Event

  • Rating Event means the rating on the Notes is lowered by each of the Rating Agencies and the Notes are rated below an Investment Grade Rating by each of the Rating Agencies on any day within the 60-day period (which 60-day period will be extended so long as the rating of the Notes is under publicly announced consideration for a possible downgrade by any of the Rating Agencies) after the earlier of (a) the occurrence of a Change of Control and (b) public notice of the occurrence of a Change of Control or the Company’s intention to effect a Change of Control; provided that a Rating Event will not be deemed to have occurred in respect of a particular Change of Control (and thus will not be deemed a Rating Event for purposes of the definition of Change of Control Triggering Event) if each Rating Agency making the reduction in rating does not publicly announce or confirm or inform the Trustee in writing at the request of the Company that the reduction was the result, in whole or in part, of any event or circumstance comprised of or arising as a result of, or in respect of, the Change of Control (whether or not the applicable Change of Control has occurred at the time of the Rating Event).

  • Adverse Rating Event With respect to any Class of Rated Certificates and any Rating Agency that has assigned a rating thereto, as of any date of determination, the qualification, downgrade or withdrawal of the rating then assigned to such Class of Rated Certificates by such Rating Agency (or the placement of such Class of Rated Certificates on “negative credit watch” status in contemplation of any such action with respect thereto).

  • Investment Grade Rating Event means the first day on which the Notes have an Investment Grade Rating from each Rating Agency, and no Default has occurred and is then continuing under this Indenture.

  • S&P Rating means, at any time, the rating issued by S&P and then in effect with respect to the Borrower’s senior unsecured long-term public debt securities without third-party credit enhancement (it being understood that if the Borrower does not have any outstanding debt securities of the type described above but has an indicative rating from S&P for debt securities of such type, then such indicative rating shall be used for determining the “S&P Rating”).

  • Step Up Rating Change means the first public announcement by either a Rating Agency or both Rating Agencies of a decrease in the credit rating of the Issuer’s senior unsecured long-term debt to below Baa3 (in the case of Moody’s) or to below BBB- (in the case of S&P). For the avoidance of doubt, any further decrease in the credit rating of the Issuer's senior unsecured long-term debt from below Baa3 in the case of Moody’s or from below BBB- in the case of S&P shall not constitute a Step Up Rating Change.

  • Moody’s Second Trigger Ratings Threshold means, with respect to Party A, the guarantor under an Eligible Guarantee or an Eligible Replacement, (i) if such entity has a short-term unsecured and unsubordinated debt rating from Moody’s, a long-term unsecured and unsubordinated debt rating or counterparty rating from Moody’s of “A3” and a short-term unsecured and unsubordinated debt rating from Moody’s of “Prime-2”, or (ii) if such entity does not have a short-term unsecured and unsubordinated debt rating from Moody’s, a long-term unsecured and unsubordinated debt rating or counterparty rating from Moody’s of “A3”.

  • Step Down Rating Change means the first public announcement after a Step Up Rating Change by one or more Rating Agencies of an increase in the Rating with the result that none of the Rating Agencies rate the Notes below Investment Grade (provided always that if less than two Rating Agencies maintain a Rating at such time the Step Down Rating Change shall not occur until at least two Rating Agencies have assigned or maintain an Investment Grade Rating); and

  • Moody’s First Trigger Ratings Threshold means, with respect to Party A, the guarantor under an Eligible Guarantee or an Eligible Replacement, (i) if such entity has a short-term unsecured and unsubordinated debt rating from Moody’s, a long-term unsecured and unsubordinated debt rating or counterparty rating from Moody’s of “A2” and a short-term unsecured and unsubordinated debt rating from Moody’s of “Prime-1”, or (ii) if such entity does not have a short-term unsecured and unsubordinated debt rating or counterparty rating from Moody’s, a long-term unsecured and unsubordinated debt rating or counterparty rating from Moody’s of “A1”.

  • Rating Date means the date which is 90 days prior to the earlier of (i) a Change in Control and (ii) public notice of the occurrence of a Change in Control or of the intention of the Company to effect a Change in Control.

  • Required Ratings Downgrade Event means that no Relevant Entity has credit ratings at least equal to the Required Ratings Threshold.

  • Liquidity Provider Ratings Event Termination Date means the date established by the Tender and Paying Agent, acting upon instructions of the Fund pursuant to the Tender and Paying Agent Agreement, for termination of the VRDP Purchase Agreement upon the occurrence of a Liquidity Provider Ratings Event, which date shall be not less than 16 days nor more than 30 days following such Liquidity Provider Ratings Event.

  • Liquidity Provider Ratings Event means the Liquidity Provider shall fail to maintain at any time short-term debt ratings in one of the two highest rating categories from the Requisite NRSROs.

  • Ratings Event means a downgrade by one or more gradations (including gradations within ratings categories as well as between rating categories) or withdrawal of the rating of the Notes within the Ratings Decline Period by two or more Rating Agencies (unless the applicable Rating Agency shall have put forth a written statement to the effect that such downgrade is not attributable in whole or in part to the applicable Change of Control) following which (except in the case of a withdrawal of a rating) the rating of the Notes by each such Rating Agency is below such Rating Agency’s rating of the Notes on the Issue Date.

  • Trigger Event Date means a date on which a Trigger Event has occurred as determined by the Calculation Agent.

  • Rating Downgrade means either:

  • Trigger Event shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.04(c).

  • S&P Approved Ratings Threshold means, with respect to Party A, the guarantor under an Eligible Guarantee or an Eligible Replacement, a short-term unsecured and unsubordinated debt rating from S&P of “A-1”, or, if such entity does not have a short-term unsecured and unsubordinated debt rating from S&P, a long-term unsecured and unsubordinated debt rating or counterparty rating from S&P of “A+”.

  • S&P Required Ratings Threshold means, with respect to Party A, the guarantor under an Eligible Guarantee or an Eligible Replacement, a long-term unsecured and unsubordinated debt rating from S&P of "BBB+".

  • Approved Ratings Threshold means each of the S&P Approved Ratings Threshold and the Moody’s First Trigger Ratings Threshold.

  • Specified Rating Agencies means each of Moody’s, S&P and DBRS as long as, in each case, it has not ceased to rate the Notes or failed to make a rating of the Notes publicly available for reasons outside of the Issuer’s control; provided that if one or more of Moody’s, S&P or DBRS ceases to rate the Notes or fails to make a rating of the Notes publicly available for reasons outside of the Issuer’s control, the Issuer may select any other “designated rating organization” within the meaning of National Instrument 41-101 of the Canadian Securities Administrators as a replacement agency for such one or more of them, as the case may be.

  • Applicable Rating Level at any time and for any Borrower shall be determined in accordance with the then-applicable S&P Rating and the then-applicable Xxxxx’x Rating for such Borrower as follows: S&P Rating/Xxxxx’x Rating Applicable Rating Level S&P Rating A or higher or Xxxxx’x Rating A2 or higher 1 S&P Rating A- or higher or Xxxxx’x Rating A3 or higher 2 S&P Rating BBB+ or Xxxxx’x Rating Baa1 3 S&P Rating BBB or Xxxxx’x Rating Baa2 4 S&P Rating BBB- or Xxxxx’x Rating Baa3 5 S&P Rating BB+ or below or Xxxxx’x Rating Ba1 or below, or no S&P Rating or Xxxxx’x Rating 6 The Applicable Rating Level for any Borrower and for any day shall be determined based upon the higher of the S&P Rating and the Xxxxx’x Rating for such Borrower in effect on such day. If the S&P Rating and the Xxxxx’x Rating are not the same (i.e., a “split rating”), the higher of such ratings shall control, unless (i) the ratings differ by more than one level, in which case the rating one level below the higher of the two ratings shall control, or (ii) either rating is below BBB- or Baa3 (as applicable), in which case the lower of the two ratings shall control.

  • Ratings Decline Period means the period that (i) begins on the earlier of (a) the date of the first public announcement of the occurrence of a Change of Control and (b) the occurrence of a Change of Control and (ii) ends 90 days following consummation of such Change of Control; provided that such period shall be extended for so long as the rating of the Notes, as noted by the applicable Rating Agency, is under publicly announced consideration for downgrade by the applicable Rating Agency.

  • Rating Condition has the meaning specified in Section 2.06(c)(ii).

  • Downgrade Event means, unless otherwise specified on the Cover Sheet, for a Party means that Party’s Credit Rating falls below BBB- from S&P or Baa3 from Moody’s or becomes no longer rated by either S&P or Moody’s.

  • Rating Agency Event means that any nationally recognized statistical rating organization within the meaning of Section 3(a)(62) of the Exchange Act that then publishes a rating for the Company (a “rating agency”) amends, clarifies or changes the criteria it uses to assign equity credit to securities such as the Notes, which amendment, clarification or change results in:

  • Credit Rating Agency means a nationally recognized credit rating agency that evaluates the financial condition of issuers of debt instruments and then assigns a rating that reflects its assessment of the issuer’s ability to make debt payments.