On October 16, ISDA and the Global FX Division of the Global Financial Markets Association responded to a consultation paper from the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) on ‘Technical Standards specifying the criteria for establishing and assessing the effectiveness of investment firms’ order execution policies’. In the response, the associations discuss the requirement for pre-selected execution venues, mandatory consumption of consolidated tapes and categorization of financial instruments under the Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation, among other issues.
Documents (1) for ISDA, GFXD respond to ESMA on Order Execution Policies
Latest
Sydney DTF: Scott O'Malia Opening Remarks
ISDA/AFMA Sydney Derivatives Trading Forum October 26, 2026 Opening Remarks Scott O’Malia ISDA Chief Executive Good morning, and welcome to the ISDA and AFMA Derivatives Trading Forum. Thanks for joining us today, and a big thank you to our...
ISDA Publishes FpML Version 5.14
ISDA has published a new version of its Financial products Markup Language (FpML), a widely used open-source standard for the electronic dealing and processing of derivatives transactions. The latest iteration – version 5.14 – incorporates several key modifications and updates...
Accounting for Tokenized Assets as Collateral
The use of tokenized assets as collateral for derivatives and securities financing transactions (SFTs) is emerging as a significant development in global capital markets. Financial institutions are increasingly evaluating tokenized representations of money market funds, government securities and other high-quality...
US Treasury Repo Clearing Indicator September 2026
The ISDA-Actrix US Treasury Repo Market Clearing Indicators illustrate central clearing adoption in the US Treasury repo market. Sponsored cleared repo volumes are used as a proxy to monitor client participation in central clearing, a key objective of the Securities...