INTERNATIONAL SWAPS AND DERIVATIVES ASSOCIATION

    Market Infrastructure

    Trade Bodies Publish EMIR Reporting Best Practices Matrix

    By Editors | 01/03/2020

    The best practice matrix is aimed at providing an agreed and standardised market guide for firms to use to comply with EMIR trade reporting requirements.

    Market Infrastructure

    BOE to Increase Haircuts on LIBOR-linked Collateral from October

    By Editors | 27/02/2020

    The market need to see a decisive acceleration in effort in 2020 to ensure risk-free rates are adopted and LIBOR is left behind for good, the BOE’s Andrew Hauser said.

    Market Infrastructure

    ISDA Launches New Consultation on Pre-cessation Fallbacks

    By Editors | 25/02/2020

    ISDA seeks input on whether to add a pre-cessation trigger to the permanent cessation fallbacks it is implementing for LIBOR in its standard documentation.

    Market Infrastructure

    ISDA Concludes Consultation on EUR LIBOR, EURIBOR Fallbacks

    By Editors | 25/02/2020

    Respondents selected the ‘compounded setting in arrears rate approach with a backward-shift adjustment’ and ‘five-year historical median approach to the spread adjustment’.

    Capital / Liquidity

    ISDA Publishes Uncleared Margin Implementation Project Checklist

    By Editors | 21/02/2020

    The checklist is suggested as a resource guide to highlight key implementation considerations for entities expecting to come into scope in September.

    Market Infrastructure

    ISDA to Re-consult on Pre-cessation Fallbacks This Month

    By Editors | 06/02/2020

    ISDA will consult on a single protocol that would allow participants to include both pre-cessation and permanent cessation fallbacks in derivatives trades.

    Market Infrastructure

    RBNZ Endorses Official Cash Rate as Fallback Benchmark

    By Editors | 31/01/2020

    New Zealand will operate a dual interest rate benchmark system, retaining the Bank Bill Benchmark Rate and using the OCR as its fallback.

    Market Infrastructure

    ISDA Welcomes Libor Pre-cessation Clarity from FCA, IBA

    By Editors | 29/01/2020

    The FCA has clarified that any period of non-representative LIBOR based on reduced panel bank submissions could last for only a period of months, not years.

    Market Infrastructure

    ISDA Chief Calls for Certainty on China Close-out Netting

    By Manesh Samtani | 16/01/2020

    The lack of legal certainty and judicial recognition on close-out netting can impede capital market development in China, impacting domestic FIs the most, ISDA’s Scott O’Malia said.

    Fintech / Regtech

    Legal Certainty Needed to Advance DLT Adoption in Derivatives

    By Editors | 14/01/2020

    ISDA, Clifford Chance, R3 and the Singapore Academy of Law have published a new whitepaper analysing the legal issues relating to the use of smart derivatives contracts on a distributed ledger.

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