This group had its roots in the derivatives working group established by the European Commission to look at derivatives (with a European CCP for CDS being the first priority) in Autumn 2008. The group involves government relations experts and contributes to evaluation and response to proposals from international banking and securities regulators as well as pan-European and individual country legislators.

The European Tax Working Group (ETWG) addresses emerging issues in taxation, liaising with representatives of major institutions and government organizations such as HM Treasury (HMT) and Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) in the UK and other European civil service departments including the European Commission. The ETWG reviews policy and operational issues arising from current and proposed taxes and levies in the financial sector that may impact derivatives markets across Europe.

The Financial Law Reform Distribution List discusses all substantive legal matters around securities, insolvency, property/collateral law as well as conflict of law rules that affect cross-border derivatives transactions world wide.

This group discusses various legal and documentation issues related to smart contracts and DLT distributed ledger technology.

This is a trader group to discuss issues on complex FX derivatives that require trader input.

A distribution list for members to stay connected to information and updates regarding FX Definitions.

A working group focusing on the standardization, development and updates in the FX market for paper confirmations, market practices and regulatory changes. It provides a broad forum for member discussion and feedback.

The purpose of this group is to facilitate meetings between ISDA’s legal opinions counsel (who author legal opinions) to discuss key legal issues and developments which impact the drafting of their opinions.

This group has been set up to work through any operational issues related to implementation of the IBOR fallbacks and the IBOR fallbacks protocol.

The ISDA India’s derivatives market white paper advisory group is open to representatives from front office, legal, compliance, policy and risk. The ISDA India’s derivatives market white paper advisory group is set up to review and guide the appointed consulting firm in coming up with the white paper on “Boosting OTC Derivatives Market in India”.