The industry’s progress in reducing counterparty credit risk.
ISDA and the industry are committed to expanding clearing and portfolio compression efforts as part of the overall goal to reduce counterparty risk. Our progress is reflected by the increasing range and volume of transactions that are cleared and compressed.
The size of the CDS market has been reduced by more than 75 percent through a combination of clearing and compression; more than $15 trillion has been centrally cleared while portfolio compression has eliminated more than $70 trillion.
Over 40 percent of the interest rate swaps market is now centrally cleared. Another $106 trillion of interest rate swaps has been eliminated due to portfolio compression.
Below is a list of analyses of existing clearing services, comment letters to regulators and industry commitments related to ISDA and the industry’s work in OTC derivatives clearing and portfolio compression. Additional information on clearing and portfolio compression is available from TriOptima triReduce, Markit and ICE Clearing.
To learn more about ISDA’s work in the industry’s clearing commitments to regulators, visit the G20 Commitments page.
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Raising Clients’ Awareness on Portability
Clients accessing a central counterparty (CCP) via a client clearing service provider (CCSP) for over-the-counter (OTC) and exchange-traded derivatives should consider what may happen to their positions and collateral in a scenario in which the CCSP defaults. While regulatory regimes...
Response to FCA on Ancillary Activities Test
On August 28, ISDA and FIA submitted a joint response to the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) consultation paper CP25/19 on the ancillary activities test to determine if commercial users or producers of commodities that trade in commodity derivatives, emission allowances...
Stress Scenarios for CCP IM Simulators
ISDA has published a paper that explains why stress scenarios that central counterparties (CCPs) use for default fund sizing cannot be used for forward-looking initial margin (IM) simulators. Typically, stress scenarios used by CCPs consist of a single step, transitioning...
Paper on EMIR 3 Active Account Representativeness
On September 4, ISDA, the European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA) and FIA shared a paper with EU policymakers requesting clarification on the implementation of the active account requirement under the third European Market Infrastructure Regulation in relation to...