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From:tana.jones@enron.com
To:david.minns@enron.com
Subject:Re: Financial Trading Legal Database
Cc:mark.taylor@enron.com
Bcc:mark.taylor@enron.com
Date:Fri, 18 Aug 2000 02:07:00 -0700 (PDT)

I think if once you get full access you could have your assistant plug in
the required data for on each ISDA Master in place or draft you have out to
counterparties. When you come here I would like to spend just a little time
going over some of the data and the reporting funtions. I am going to open
an Enron counterparty called short name "Enron Australia" and that should be
the code name you should use. Please do not change the entries on any of the
Houston or London based counterparties.



David Minns@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT
08/17/2000 06:31 PM

To: Tana Jones/HOU/ECT@ECT
cc: Mark Taylor/HOU/ECT@ECT, Alison
Keogh/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT, Robert
McGrory/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT
Subject: Re: Financial Trading Legal Database

I fully endorse Mark's suggestion to load up our ISDAs. A worldwide data
dase of this nature is a valuable resource. I have access to the data base
and refer it. Getting our contracts on is on my to do list. What is the best
way forward. Yes I will be over in October, I fact I will staying a month.
However, if there is anything we can do to get info loaded up sooner? We are
most willing to put in the resources.

When access is being granted could it also be given to my Admin assistant
Alison Keogh and also Rob McGrory who is also working under my direction on
ISDA documentation.

Thanks for taking the initative on this matter.





From: Tana Jones@ECT on 17-08-2000 09:43 CDT
To: David Minns/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT
cc: Mark Taylor/HOU/ECT@ECT

Subject: Financial Trading Legal Database

David,

Mark Taylor asked me to talk to you about getting your ISDA Masters inputted
into our Financial Trading Database. This databse is the central master
database where we keep records of the financial agreements in either draft
form or that have been executed. London currently updates this database to
manage its (and Singapore's) financial contracts and I would like to get the
Australian agreements plugged into the system.

This database serves a number of purposes. First, it is our core memory of
contract negotiations. Anyone in Legal and Credit around the world can take
a look at this database and determine who we have entered into contract with
and what negotiation issues may be at issue. It is critical as we become a
global trading company that we are consistent in the legal positions we take
on these financial contracts. For instance, it would be quite problematic if
someone in Houston was negotiating a contract with an ISDA counterparty and
asserted that a certain position was critical, if we find out a lawyer in
another office was negotiating with the same counterparty and gave on the
same position the day before. We need to make a somewhat coordinated effort
on the counterparty front.

In addition, with so many masters and so many counterparties there is just no
way to keep track of what we have said or done unless we have a database.

Further, we use the information in the database to respond to inside
auditing, reporting and insurance inquiries.

For online trading, I check the database to see if we have a financial master
agreement and what trading restrictions we may or may not have in place.
Global contracts uses this database to confirm their financial contract
records and approval for online trading.

For both Houston and London we use the database to communicate with our
Clients, whether traders or back office support people. Employees outside
legal have limited view access only to see all the information except the
confidential Legal and Credit comments. They have no edit capabilities. The
database also has some reporting functions that we and London Legal have
found helpful.

You should have gotten my email to Mike Neves, out database coordinator
requesting full edit access for you. It usually takes a few days. Once you
get access maybe you could find some time to surf the database, and we can
figure out how to get your ISDA data inputted..

Are you coming to the ENA Legal Conference in October? That would be a good
time for me to do a full review of this database with you.