ISDA AGM Studio: Jack Hattem and Tom Wipf

ISDA’s Ann Battle talks to Jack Hattem, ISDA board member and managing director, global fixed income, at BlackRock, and Tom Wipf, ISDA board member, vice chairman of institutional securities at Morgan Stanley and chair of the Alternative Reference Rates Committee, about the shift from 30 LIBOR settings at the end of 2021, and lessons that can be learned ahead of the transition from five US dollar LIBOR tenors in mid-2023.

ISDA Publishes Saudi Arabia Netting Opinions

ISDA has published new legal opinions that recognize the enforceability of close-out netting under regulations published by the Saudi Central Bank (SAMA) earlier this year. SAMA’s netting regulations were published in February, meaning all Group-of-20 jurisdictions now recognize the enforceability...

Get Ready for the ISDA Notices Hub

No one wants to have to terminate a derivatives trading relationship – that usually means a counterparty has failed to make a payment or has become insolvent. At an already stressful time, the last thing anyone needs is to experience...

ISDA Publishes Paper on SFDR Review

On June 23, ISDA and the Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) published a position paper on the review of the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR). The paper acknowledges that the SFDR needs to be revised in line with...