ISDA Comment Letter to CFTC on Risk Management Requirements for DCOs

Contains the response of the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. (“ISDA”) to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (the “Commission”) notice of proposed rulemaking (“NPR”) regarding the regulations to implement derivatives clearing organization (“DCO”) core principles as amended by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (“Dodd-Frank Act”).

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10 Years of the ISDA SIMM

As the derivatives industry prepared for the September 2016 implementation of initial margin requirements for non-cleared derivatives, one challenge stood out: counterparties needed to agree on the amount of initial margin to be exchanged. But if each firm developed its...

Expanding the Universe of Eligible VM

ISDA conducted a series of interviews with buy- and sell-side firms to understand the drivers of a growing use of non-cash assets as variation margin (VM) for non-cleared over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives and the barriers that remain to expanding the use...