# XML Schema Documentation

### Element: bermudaExercise

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This element can be used wherever the following element is referenced: exercise

Name | bermudaExercise
Type | BermudaExercise
Nillable | no
Abstract | no
Documentation | The parameters for defining the exercise period for a Bermuda style option together with any rules governing the notional amount of the underlying which can be exercised on any given exercise date and any associated exercise fees.

Logical Diagram
XML Instance Representation
<bermudaExercise
id=" xsd:ID [0..1]">
<bermudaExerciseDates> AdjustableOrRelativeDates </bermudaExerciseDates> [1]

'The dates the define the Bermuda option exercise dates and the expiration date. The last specified date is assumed to be the expiration date. The dates can either be specified as a series of explicit dates and associated adjustments or as a series of dates defined relative to another schedule of dates, for example, the calculation period start dates. Where a relative series of dates are defined the first and last possible exercise dates can be separately specified.'

<relevantUnderlyingDate> AdjustableOrRelativeDates </relevantUnderlyingDate> [0..1]

'The daye on the underlying set by the exercise of an option. What this date is depends on the option (e.g. in a swaption it is the effective date, in an extendible/cancelable provision it is the termination date).'

<earliestExerciseTime> BusinessCenterTime </earliestExerciseTime> [1]

'The earliest time at which notice of exercise can be given by the buyer to the seller (or seller\'s agent) i) on the expriation date, in the case of a European style option, (ii) on each bermuda option exercise date and the expiration date, in the case of a Bermuda style option the commencement date to, and including, the expiration date , in the case of an American option.'

<latestExerciseTime> BusinessCenterTime </latestExerciseTime> [0..1]

'For a Bermuda or American style option, the latest time on an exercise business day (excluding the expiration date) within the exercise period that notice can be given by the buyer to the seller or seller\'s agent. Notice of exercise given after this time will be deemed to have been given on the next exercise business day.'

<expirationTime> BusinessCenterTime </expirationTime> [1]

'The latest time for exercise on expirationDate.'

<multipleExercise> MultipleExercise </multipleExercise> [0..1]

'As defined in the 2000 ISDA Definitions, Section 12.4. Multiple Exercise, the buyer of the option has the right to exercise all or less than all the unexercised notional amount of the underlying swap on one or more days in the exercise period, but on any such day may not exercise less than the minimum notional amount or more that the maximum notional amount, and if an integral multiple amount is specified, the notional amount exercised must be equal to, or be an intergral multiple of, the integral multiple amount.'

<exerciseFeeSchedule> ExerciseFeeSchedule </exerciseFeeSchedule> [0..1]

'The fees associated with an exercise date. The fees are conditional on the exercise occuring. The fees can be specified as actual currency amounts or as percentages of the notional amount being exercised.'

</bermudaExercise>
Diagram
Schema Component Representation
<xsd:element name="bermudaExercise" type=" BermudaExercise " substitutionGroup="exercise"/>