ISDA Regulatory Margin Self-Disclosure Letter

The ISDA Regulatory Margin Self-Disclosure Letter, published on June 30, 2016, is intended to assist market participants with the exchange of the information necessary to determine if, and when, their trading relationship will become subject to regulatory margin requirements for uncleared swaps in one or more of the following jurisdictions: (i) Canada, (ii) the European Union, (iii) Japan, (iv) Switzerland, and (v) the United States.

Deadline Pressure on Treasury Clearing

By the end of this year, the first phase of the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Treasury clearing mandate is scheduled to come into force, affecting users of US Treasury securities all over the world. It’s difficult to overstate...

ISDA Publishes Equity Definitions VE, Version 2.0

ISDA has published version 2.0 of the ISDA Equity Derivatives Definitions (Versionable Edition) (the “Equity Definitions VE”) on the MyLibrary platform. This publication includes, among other updates, provisions that can be used for documenting transactions with time-weighted average price or volume-weighted average price features,...

Marking a Milestone - IQ January 2025

It was a different time and a very different market, but 1985 remains a seminal year in the history of over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives – the year that ISDA was established and the very first industry standard document was published. While...

Response to FCA on SI Regime

On January 10, ISDA and the Global Foreign Exchange Division (GFXD) of the Global Financial Markets Association (GFMA) responded to questions from the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) on the future of the systematic internalizer (SI) regime. In the response,...