ISDA Letter to the BCBS on SA-CCR

Following the suggestion by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) to ISDA to share industry views and inputs on the standardized approach for measuring counterparty credit risk exposures (SA-CCR), ISDA responded in a letter on March 20 highlighting its SA-CCR quantitative impact study findings and setting out suggestions for improved coherence and calibration of the SA-CCR framework.

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