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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Global Trading in INR Derivatives

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Response to FCA on Commodity Derivatives Clearing

On April 9, ISDA, the Commodity Markets Council Europe (CMCE), Energy Traders Europe (ETE) and FIA jointly responded to Chapter 7 of the UK Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) Quarterly Consultation CP26/8 on increasing the clearing threshold for commodity derivatives under the UK...

Response on EC’s SFR Proposal

On April 9, ISDA published technical comments on the European Commission’s (EC) proposed Settlement Finality Regulation (SFR) as it applies to designated EU systems and registered third-country systems. One significant concern is that the scope of insolvency protections provided to...