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Even if the financing structure is ring-fenced and backed by an investment-grade counterparty, the real risk may lie in whether an equity issue today later evolves into a credit problem over time.—April Roach, CNBC, 6 Apr. 2026 Claude, in other words, was functionally an additional counterparty.—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2026 Bitcoin is the only pristine collateral that scales globally without counterparty risk.—Boaz Sobrado, Forbes.com, 19 Jan. 2026 Why doesn’t the counterparty have to wait for actual nonperformance of the contract?—Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for counterparty