Originally published by ISDA on June 7, 2012, the USI Overview Document provides the industry with Design & Guiding Principles to be used for USI generation and consumption to meet CFTC regulatory requirements. The document has been updated as of September 4, 2013 to reflect updates to the CFTC’s USI specifications and acknowledge the industry effort to build upon the agreed approach to USI to address the use of Unique Trade Identifiers (UTI) for global regulatory reporting.
Documents (1) for Unique Swap Identifier (USI): An Overview Document
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The CPI Quandary
The recent US government shutdown didn’t just create weeks of political drama – it also left inflation-linked swaps dealers with a major headache: how should they determine an initial value for new trades given the US Bureau of Labor Statistics...
ISDA Response to HMT, BoE on UK CCPs
On November 18, ISDA submitted its responses to the Bank of England (BoE) consultation on ensuring the resilience of central counterparties (CCPs) and the UK Treasury’s (HMT) two draft CCP statutory instruments (SIs). These consultations form part of the update...
Doubling Down on Appropriate Trading Book Capital
Throughout ISDA’s 40th anniversary year, we’ve been reflecting on the quest for greater consistency and efficiency that underpins everything we’ve achieved since 1985. It was at the heart of the original efforts to bring greater standardization to the nascent derivatives...
Determining Initial Reference Index for New Trades
On November 25, 2025, ISDA published a Market Practice Note (MPN) to recommend a specific methodology that market participants could elect to use for the purposes of determining the Initial Reference Index for certain new inflation derivative transactions given that...