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11.14 Novations, rollovers, and replacements
Publication date: 14 Oct 2019
us IFRS & US GAAP guide
Both US GAAP and IFRS permit continuance of a designated hedging relationship when a contract is modified in certain circumstances. However, the circumstances under which the hedge relationship can continue after a modification differ under the two frameworks.
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A change in the counterparty to a derivative that has been designated as the hedging instrument does not, in and of itself, require dedesignation of that hedging relationship, provided that all other hedge accounting criteria continue to be met.
However, US GAAP requires an entity to dedesignate a hedging relationship upon expiration of the derivative or a change to the critical terms of the derivative or hedging relationship.
| IFRS explicitly permits the continuation of hedge accounting when the counterparty to a derivative changes through novation to a clearing counterparty (such as a central clearing party) as a consequence of laws or regulations. However, in practice, there may be other scenarios when a novation, in and of itself, would not require a dedesignation of the hedging relationship.
IFRS permits the continuation of hedge accounting upon the replacement or rollover of a hedging instrument into another hedging instrument if it is part of the entity’s documented hedging strategy.
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