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Market Infrastructure
ISDA Calls for Delay to Initial Margin Deadlines
By Editors | 26/03/2020
Without a delay, smaller entities will almost certainly be shut out of the derivatives market, denying them the ability to manage risk when they need it most, says ISDA chief Scott O’Malia.
Market Infrastructure
ICMA Publishes High-Level Guidance on IBOR Transition
By Editors | 01/03/2020
The ‘Quick Guide’ provides a high-level overview of 11 key areas relating to the transition from IBORs (including LIBOR) to risk free rates in the international bond market.
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.
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