Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

Failure to deliver

French translation:

le manquement aux obligations d\'un contrat

Added to glossary by Merlin Mbangouh
Jun 25, 2022 21:36
2 yrs ago
34 viewers *
English term

Failure to deliver

English to French Bus/Financial Investment / Securities
Hello,

Can someone help me with this phrase? "Failure to deliver". What is the best terminology in French? Especially in Finance/Investment. Thank you

Discussion

Merlin Mbangouh (asker) Jun 30, 2022:
Oui, exactement! Mon souci en fait est qu’il est sous forme de sigle (FTD) et j’essaie juste de voir s’il y a un équivalent en français, genre officiel.
Francois Boye Jun 26, 2022:
Asker's title is incomplete: he should have said 'Failure to deliver on obligations'
Renate Radziwill-Rall Jun 26, 2022:
Daryo right!!!!
Daryo Jun 26, 2022:
Even a title or ... especially a title doesn't float alone in some timeless spaceless emptiness.
There is ALWAYS some context that can shift the meaning slightly or quite a lot.
Without few samples of the term used in real-life sentences, it's pointless assumptions.
One of the presumed meaning could even be the right one. By pure luck / accident.
But playing linguistic roulette is hardly the same as "translating", at least in my rulebook.
Context?

Germaine Jun 26, 2022:
Merlin, À priori, s'il s'agit d'un titre, je dirais simplement "Non-exécution" - ce qui pourrait aller dans la phrase aussi, mais ce serait intéressant de la lire pour vérifier...
Renate Radziwill-Rall Jun 25, 2022:
Some context would be ok, the whole sentence at least

Proposed translations

1 hr
Selected

le manquement aux obligations d'un contrat

What Is Failure To Deliver (FTD)

Failure to deliver (FTD) refers to a situation where one party in a trading contract (whether it's shares, futures, options, or forward contracts) doesn't deliver on their obligation. Such failures occur when a buyer (the party with a long position) doesn't have enough money to take delivery and pay for the transaction at settlement.

A failure can also occur when the seller (the party with a short position) does not own all or any of the underlying assets required at settlement, and so cannot make the delivery.

--------------------------------------------------
Note added at 2 hrs (2022-06-25 23:51:28 GMT)
--------------------------------------------------

Source: Investopedia

--------------------------------------------------
Note added at 3 hrs (2022-06-26 01:17:15 GMT)
--------------------------------------------------

Another formulation

obligations contractuelles instead of obligations d'un contrat

--------------------------------------------------
Note added at 1 day 33 mins (2022-06-26 22:09:43 GMT)
--------------------------------------------------

manquement:


Action de manquer à un devoir, à une loi, à une règle : De graves manquements au règlement.
Synonymes :

contrevenance - désobéissance - entorse - inobservation - transgression - violation

Source: Dictionnaire Larousse
Note from asker:
Thank you so much. I really appreciate. I’m going to take all your answers into consideration and use the most appropriate one.
Thank you I appreciate. I’m actually learning a lot from these various answers.
Peer comment(s):

neutral Daryo : good explanation, but your translation is too wide in meaning - can ALL and ANY "manquement aux obligations d'un contrat" be called a "Failure To Deliver"? Not convinced.
38 mins
Did you read the text above? //Failure to deliver on obligations
Something went wrong...
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
8 hrs

Incapacité à tenir les engagements

Il peut s'agir des engagements contractuels mais aussi par exemple des revenus escomptés pour des produits financiers. Cordialement
Note from asker:
C’est exactement ça. C’est en fait sous la forme d’un sigle (FTD) et je veux juste savoir si son équivalent existe en français.
Peer comment(s):

neutral writeaway : in a back translation, Incapacité would become inability. Failure means that the obligations weren't met, but doesn't mean they couldn't have been.
11 hrs
Something went wrong...
Term search
  • All of ProZ.com
  • Term search
  • Jobs
  • Forums
  • Multiple search