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Crypto / Digital Assets
Regulation Asia Awards for Excellence 2019 – Results Announcement
By Editors | 14/11/2019
Regulation Asia held its second annual Awards ceremony on 13 November 2019 to recognise technology companies, legal and consulting firms, and exchanges that have helped shape the regulatory landscape in Asia Pacific over the past year.
Press Release
ISDA Wins Best Solution for Initial Margin Compliance, Project Award for Derivatives Innovation
By Editors | 14/11/2019
ISDA has won the Best Solution in Initial Margin Compliance and an Outstanding Project award for its work in Derivatives Innovation.
Fintech / Regtech
Ageing Infrastructure Creating Derivatives Market Inefficiencies: ISDA Chief
By Editors | 10/11/2019
Firms still take more than a day on average to resolve reconciliations and disputes caused by a lack of data transparency through the trade lifecycle.
Market Infrastructure
A Liquid Global Swaps Market Relies on Deference: CFTC’s Quintenz
By Manesh Samtani | 29/10/2019
Market fragmentation poses serious risks to the liquidity and health of the derivatives markets, said CFTC commissioner Brian Quintenz at the ISDA Annual Japan Conference.
Market Infrastructure
Australia: Smaller Institutions, Buy Side Less Prepared for Libor Cessation
By Manesh Samtani | 24/10/2019
Existing Libor-referencing contracts that don’t have robust fallback provisions in place will be tied up in very lengthy disputes, warned the RBA’s Christopher Kent at ISDA’s Australia Conference.
Market Infrastructure
ISDA Publishes Final Results of IBOR Pre-Cessation Consultation
By Manesh Samtani | 22/10/2019
The consultation did not yield a consensus among market participants regarding how to address pre-cessation issues related to a benchmark’s nonrepresentativeness.
Capital / Liquidity
ISDA Chief Calls for Specific Changes to CVA Framework
By Editors | 09/10/2019
The current CVA rules due for implementation in January 2022 could lead to an inappropriately sharp increase in capital requirements for derivatives businesses.
Big Picture
EU Equivalence Needed on Cross-Border Intragroup Transactions
By Editors | 01/10/2019
ISDA and EU banking associations are calling for equivalence decisions to be prioritised for Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore and South Korea, among others.
Securities / Derivatives
US, UK Agencies Work to Clean Up Credit Derivatives Market
By Editors | 24/09/2019
In a joint statement, the SEC, CFTC and FCA have pledged to work together to address “opportunistic strategies” that harm the credit derivatives market.
Market Infrastructure
ISDA Issues Guidance on Executing Trades on Recognised Venues
By Editors | 23/09/2019
The guides describe how cross-border trading will work following the CFTC-MAS, CFTC-FSA and EC-MAS agreements on mutual recognition of derivatives trading venues.
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