International Swaps and Derivatives Association

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ISDA fosters safe and efficient derivatives markets to facilitate effective risk management for all users of derivatives products. ISDA achieves its mission by representing all market participants globally, promoting high standards of commercial conduct that enhance market integrity, and leading industry action on derivatives issues.

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Marking a Milestone – IQ January 2025

It was a different time and a very different market, but 1985 remains a seminal year in the history of over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives – the year that ISDA was established and the very first industry standard document was published. While modest in its scope and ambitions, the Code of Standard Wording, Assumptions and Provisions for Swaps (Code of SWAPS) put in place a new status quo, based on the recognition that collaboration was the best way to solve shared industry challenges. Forty...

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ISDA Solutions InfoHub

The ISDA Solutions InfoHub integrates ISDA’s full suite of mutualized digital solutions, covering legal, data and risk. Each solution is designed to help firms standardize, optimize and automate key aspects of the derivatives process cost-effectively and at scale.

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The Value of OTC Derivatives: Empowering Organizations to Manage Risks, Enhance Returns and Optimize Liquidity

The over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives market is a cornerstone of the global financial system, enabling corporations, governments and financial institutions around the world to manage risk, enhance returns, optimize liquidity and efficiently allocate capital. This creates value for users by fostering predictability, reducing costs, protecting against losses and dampening the impact of volatility on earnings – in turn, generating value for the broader economy by bringing greater stability...

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Australian Superannuation Funds Use of Derivatives

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May 23, 2025

Celebrating ISDA’s Successes and the Next Decade

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The Value of OTC Derivatives

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ISDA Animation: The Impact of Derivatives

Companies around the globe rely on derivatives to transfer unwanted risk, enhance returns and manage their liquidity needs. ISDA’s new...

ISDA Animation: The ISDA Notices Hub

Derivatives contracts sometimes need to be terminated early, requiring a termination notice to be delivered to the counterparty using the...

The International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) fosters safe and efficient derivatives markets to facilitate effective risk management for all users of derivatives products. ISDA has over 1,000 member institutions from 76 countries, encompassing a wide range of market participants. These include corporations, investment managers, government and supranational entities, insurance companies, energy and commodities firms, and international and regional banks. ISDA membership also includes key components of the derivatives market infrastructure, such as exchanges, intermediaries, clearing houses, trade repositories, law firms, accounting firms and other service providers. Membership is categorized into three types: Primary (dealer firms); Associate (service providers); and Subscriber (end users).

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SwapsInfo First Quarter of 2025

Interest rate derivatives (IRD) trading activity increased in the first quarter of 2025, driven by elevated interest rate volatility, shifting central bank policy expectations and evolving inflation and growth outlooks. Trading in index credit derivatives also rose, as market participants...

ISDA AGM Studio: Sid Nadella, Google Cloud

Sid Nadella, director and global head of capital markets solutions at Google Cloud, speaks to Joel Clark, ISDA’s senior director of communications, on the extent artificial intelligence is being used by financial institutions and the biggest risks and challenges of...

Celebrating ISDA’s Successes and the Next Decade

Today, May 23, marks exactly 40 years since ISDA, initially known as the International Swap Dealers Association, was first established by a small group of mostly New-York-based dealers. At ISDA’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Amsterdam last week, we had...

ISDA Response to CFTC on 24/7 Trading

On May 21, ISDA, the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) and its asset management group (SIFMA AMG) submitted a joint response to the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) request for comment on 24/7 trading and clearing. The...

ISDA AGM Studio: Jack Hattem and Jared Noering

Jack Hattem, ISDA board member and managing director, global fixed income at BlackRock, and Jared Noering, ISDA board member and global head of fixed income trading at NatWest Markets, talk to Nick Sawyer, ISDA’s global head of communications, on how...

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