Episode 11: Resilience by Margin

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The requirement to post initial margin for non-cleared derivatives was one of the main post-financial crisis reforms. As the industry prepares for the final two phases of implementation, Greg O’Donahue of the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan and Jérôme Blais of BNP Paribas Securities Services reflect on the impact and challenges of the requirements.

Response on Transaction Reporting and Transparency

On October 30, ISDA submitted comments on the European Parliament’s (EP) proposed transaction reporting and transparency-related amendments to the European Commission’s Market Integration and Supervision Package (MISP). On transaction reporting, ISDA commends the EP’s ambition but cautions against trying to...

Joint Paper on EC Tax Omnibus

On November 5, ISDA, the Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) and the International Securities Lending Association (ISLA) submitted a paper to support the proposed European Commission (EC) Tax Omnibus as a route to simpler, more certain cross-border taxation....

Response to FCA on Tokenized Gold

On November 2, ISDA responded to the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) call for input on tokenized gold. ISDA supports the use of tokenized gold as wholesale collateral and highlights the benefits it could bring to collateral management and settlement. ISDA...