Episode 10: Adapting to Change

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Market participants face a huge number of changes, from the death of LIBOR to adapting to the post-Brexit landscape. How is this affecting trading patterns and customer behavior? Sian Hurrell, head of global sales and relationship management at RBC Capital Markets, gives her views.

10 Years of the ISDA SIMM

As the derivatives industry prepared for the September 2016 implementation of initial margin requirements for non-cleared derivatives, one challenge stood out: counterparties needed to agree on the amount of initial margin to be exchanged. But if each firm developed its...

Expanding the Universe of Eligible VM

ISDA conducted a series of interviews with buy- and sell-side firms to understand the drivers of a growing use of non-cash assets as variation margin (VM) for non-cleared over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives and the barriers that remain to expanding the use...