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Other Industry Initiatives – Operations Management Group (OMG) In late 2005, an industry leadership group of operations professionals representing a number of major OTC derivatives dealers (the “Senior Oversight Group” or “SOG”) was formed to lead an effort to strengthen the operational infrastructure underlying the OTC derivatives market. The SOG issued a series of letters to Timothy Geithner, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, outlining the industry’s commitments to strengthening operational efficiency and thereby reducing risk in the global credit and equity derivatives markets. A link to these letters and to related Press Releases from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York is set forth below. In December 2007, the Operations Management Group (the “OMG”) was created to succeed the work of the SOG. The OMG is a senior level, strategic group whose general mission is to examine and effect fundamental change in current front-to-back processes for all OTC derivative products. In the interest of ensuring that the viewpoint of other market participants was brought to the table, the OMG invited the buy-side and certain trade associations, including ISDA, the Managed Funds Association (MFA) and the Asset Managers Group of the Securities Industry Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) to participate in a collaborative effort going forward. The institutions represented on the OMG are listed below. On March 27, 2008, the OMG submitted its latest set of operational goals in support of a more fully automated and scalable marketplace. ISDA endorses the commitments and expectations outlined by the industry in its latest letter and will work with market participants to achieve these goals. Institutions Represented on the OMG Buy-side Firms Industry Associations Industry Letters to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and Related Press Releases
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