ISDA’s Pickel addresses friction between rules and commitments

ISDA executive vice-chairman Robert Pickel said regulators were "sensitive" to the issues created by the scrapping of the TriOptima repository. A clause in the new Fed letter should help to reduce the chance of another rates repository rethink situation, said Pickel. Pickel was speaking in a video interview with Risk magazine’s Duncan Wood at Isda’s annual general meeting in Prague on April 14. SUBSCRIPTION REQUIRED.

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Eyeing the Basel III Finish Line

An effective regulatory capital framework relies on multiple ingredients, from appropriate drafting to rigorous testing and consultation. Even minor calibration distortions can inflate capital requirements, which could negatively affect the capacity of banks to support deep and liquid markets, with...

Joint Comment Letter on Basel III Endgame Proposal

The Institute of International Finance (IIF), the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. (ISDA) and the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) today submitted a joint comment letter to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the...