funded credit protection

125for the purposes of BIPRU 73) a technique of credit risk mitigation where the reduction of the credit risk on the exposure of an undertaking derives from the right of the undertaking, in the event of the default of the counterparty or on the occurrence of other specified credit events relating to the counterparty, to liquidate, or to obtain transfer or appropriation of, or to retain certain assets or amounts, or to reduce the amount of the exposure to, or to replace it with, the amount of the difference between the amount of the exposure and the amount of a claim on the undertaking.[Note: article 4(31) of the Banking Consolidation Directive (Definitions)]125