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ISDA

Since 1985, ISDA has worked to make the global derivatives markets safer and more efficient. Today, ISDA has over 925 member institutions from 75 countries. These members comprise a broad range of derivatives market participants, including corporations, investment managers, government and supranational entities, insurance companies, energy and commodities firms, and international and regional banks. In addition to market participants, members also include key components of the derivatives market infrastructure, such as exchanges, intermediaries, clearing houses and repositories, as well as law firms, accounting firms and other service providers.

ISDA News

Regulation

ISDA: ‘Not a lot of time’ to prepare for US Treasury reforms

CEO Scott O’Malia believes there to be an “enormous laundry list of tasks” to complete when it comes to the SEC’s US Treasury reforms

Industry

Collateralisation brings ‘significant benefits’, says BoE

As counterparties across the financial ecosystem have become increasingly interconnected, credit relationships have become increasingly collateralised, according to Nathanael Benjamin

Technology

ISDA proceeds with development of industry notices hub

The ISDA Notices Hub will act as a secure central platform for firms to deliver notices, with automatic alerts sent to the receiver

Derivatives

ISDA publishes digital framework on close-out of derivatives contracts

The ISDA Close-out Framework will serve as a resource to help firms and service providers prepare for any potential future stress events

ISDA Features

Risk and regulatory capital: getting the balance right

ISDA’s head of capital Panayiotis Dionysopoulos and head of clearing services Ulrich Karl speak to Bob Currie about the implications of the US Basel III Endgame and G-SIB Surcharge proposals and the key recommendations in their joint consultation response submitted with SIFMA

Solving the UMR puzzle

Sophie Marnhier Foy examines the data challenges faced by firms in calculating ISDA SIMM inputs and warns against shifting the data problem back to the user and incurring additional cost

When independent amount meets initial margin

Calypso Technology explores the three different options set out by ISDA for managing the combination of independent amount and regulatory initial margin