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ISDA’s Collateral Initiatives

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ISDA is working with its members to develop and implement collateral management automated workflows and data standards that will reduce operational, liquidity and counterparty risks.

  • Automate workflows
  • Holistically manage collateral across products
  • Implement Common Domain Model (CDM) data standards and digitization use cases
  • Expand eligible collateral

 

CDM for Collateral Initiatives Use Cases

For more information, go to: CDM-Collateral Initiatives Fact Sheet.

CDM Collateral Start-up Guide

This resource is designed to learn more about the CDM for collateral management and how to implement it. This is targeted to the business user and structured as a set of short tutorials, giving you the opportunity to interact with the CDM and understand the features and tools available.

 

Currently Available

  • Document Digitization, including the ISDA Master Agreement and credit support annexes (CSAs) for legacy, initial margin and variation margin:
    Expedite collateral management onboarding and interoperability and decrease operational risks.
  • Collateral Representation:
    Streamline eligible collateral schedule data onboarding, interoperability and collateral settlement; improve business as usual data processing across collateralized products; and optimize collateral.
  • Margin Call, Collateral Positions and Balance Structure:
    Streamline margin call and collateral inventory data; improve liquidity management and collateral optimization; decrease settlement fails and Treasury Market Practice Group fees; and enable connectivity to digital regulatory reporting.
  • Cash Collateral Interest Calculation and Processing:
    Automate cash collateral calculation and payment process and decrease settlement fails.

 

Webinars

 

CDM Test Sample Data

  • CDM test sample data covering various ISDA CSA types and eligible collateral schedules can be reviewed and downloaded here.

 

ISDA’s Collateral Working Groups

  • Margin and Collateral Processing Working Group
  • CDM-Collateral Working Group (including members of the International Securities Lending Association and the International Capital Market Association)
  • Custodian Collateral Working Group (for custodian firms only)

To participate in any of the working groups above, please visit https://www.isda.org/committees/.

For additional information regarding ISDA’s collateral initiatives, please contact collateralinitiatives@isda.org.

 

ISDA Collateral Management Resources

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