How to Use counterparty in a Sentence

counterparty

noun
  • That makes the stock go up, and the further up the stock goes, the more stock my counterparty will have to buy.
    — Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 27 Jan. 2021
  • The project suffers, but the counterparty walks away profitable.
    — Zoltan Istvan, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Gecamines was a key counterparty in many of Gertler’s most lucrative copper deals.
    — Thomas Wilson, Bloomberg.com, 23 Feb. 2018
  • But there is a real lack of information on the size of and counterparty to these exposures.
    — Paul J. Davies, WSJ, 8 Aug. 2018
  • To that end there is a counterparty risk inherent in the stablecoin system.
    — Mike O'Sullivan, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
  • The implication is that as the economy slows, and as big banks grow wary of counterparty risk, more small banks will be exposed.
    — The Economist, 5 Sep. 2019
  • Safe in terms of liquidity and counterparty risk.
    — Vipin Bharathan, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Lending gold carries a counterparty risk.
    — Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 18 Nov. 2025
  • And, when there is no central counterparty in the traditional sense, where does enforcement fall?
    — Bob Diamond, Fortune, 28 Apr. 2026
  • In business, sure, suddenly pulling out of a deal in order to scare your counterparty into meeting your terms can work, sometimes.
    — Jonah Shepp, Daily Intelligencer, 26 May 2018
  • But the ceasefire-for-hostages deal, while transacted with Hamas, does not see Hamas as the real counterparty.
    — Bernard Avishai, The New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2024
  • Genesis is a counterparty to many in the digital-asset space and is closely watched as a gauge of the industry’s strength.
    — Lydia Beyoud, Fortune, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Why doesn’t the counterparty have to wait for actual nonperformance of the contract?
    — Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2026
  • Yes, derivatives can pay off on all sorts of inflationary outcomes (if the counterparty is solvent enough to pay—a big if).
    — James Berman, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Is there an opportunity to ask more questions and learn more about the counterparty's reasoning?
    — Oleksandr Strozhemin, Forbes, 16 Sep. 2024
  • This model reduces counterparty risk in the event of an exchange breach, ensuring funds remain protected.
    — Sandy Carter, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2025
  • Blockchain can be used to back smart contracts that automate commercial counterparty transactions.
    — Andrew Bruce, Forbes, 11 June 2021
  • By the time the debt matures, the counterparty would settle in bitcoin—sidestepping the usual route of placing giant buy orders on public markets.
    — Dave Birnbaum, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
  • These wallets have to be set up with each exchange and, therefore, expose investors to the counterparty risk of these unregulated platforms.
    — Patrick Augustin, Fortune, 8 May 2021
  • Such an event would have negative ripple effects on the rest of the financial system as counterparty exposure becomes more of an issue.
    — Sergei Klebnikov, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2022
  • And unlike sovereign bonds or fiat currencies, gold carries no counterparty risks, Melek said.
    — Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 17 June 2025
  • In fact, counterparty perception is even more measurable than the other factors because it is based on quantifiable results.
    — WSJ, 10 Oct. 2017
  • Credit and reputational risk committees vet clients and transactions, and the bank puts limits on how much could be lost from a single client or counterparty.
    — Margot Patrick, WSJ, 7 June 2021
  • The new function, called counterparty market risk, will be headed by Amélie Perrier, according to a staff memo.
    — Margot Patrick, WSJ, 9 July 2021
  • The Fed made a separate technical move to expand the limit per counterparty on what is known as an overnight reverse repurchase agreement.
    — Telis Demos, WSJ, 20 Mar. 2021
  • When machines out-think, out-work, and even out-create humans but also become the counterparty in many of our important relationships, what gives life meaning?
    — Toby Stuart, Time, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Often described as the central bank for central banks, the BIS acts as a counterparty and agent for central banks in their transactions.
    — Michael Hiltzik, latimes.com, 18 June 2018
  • Most bank supervisors and risk officers treat a counterparty in Hong Kong like one in Heidelberg.
    — The Economist, 4 June 2020
  • However, gold leasing carries with it counterparty and operational risks that ordinary storage does not.
    — Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 18 Nov. 2025
  • These complex financial instruments are structured so that the party on the other side of the trade would pay the pension fund when bond prices rose, but the pension fund would have to pay the counterparty when bond prices fell.
    — Joe Rennison, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2022

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