ISDA responds to the FASB on improvements to hedge accounting rules

On November 4, 2016, ISDA’s Accounting Committee responded to a Financial Accounting Standards Board proposal on Derivatives and Hedging (Topic 815), which proposes certain modifications to the hedge accounting rules. In the letter, ISDA stressed that the primary focus of these efforts is to make hedge accounting more consistent with risk management practices and less complicated for practitioners to apply in certain areas.

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Remove Bureaucracy from Cross-margin Approvals

Cross-margining programs play a critical role in financial markets. By ensuring margin requirements more closely reflect the actual risk of a portfolio of products, they reduce liquidity strain and improve market efficiency, both of which will become even more important...

Joint Response on CCP Resolution

On September 7, ISDA and FIA responded to a Bank of England (BOE) discussion paper on central counterparty (CCP) resolution. The associations support greater clarity on valuation capabilities prior to a crisis scenario and the boundary between recovery and resolution,...