Letter to Financial Stability Board (FSB) providing overview of industry achievements

ISDA provides the FSB with an overview of industry achievements over the past year.  The letter covers recent developments under the headings of clearing, standardisation, exchange and electronic trading, trade repositories and financial law reform.  There is also an appendix details of various studies and resources published by ISDA over the past months, which provide some background to the marketplace and to ISDA’s work.

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