ISDA letter responding to the CFTC’s proposed cross-border rules for margin

ISDA provides comments to the CFTC regarding the recently proposed rulemaking relating to the cross-border application of the Commission’s margin requirements for uncleared swaps . Our analysis of the proposed rules addresses five critical themes: supporting the ‘Guidance’ approach with modifications; addressing harmonization of global rules with simplified substituted compliance; adoption of a 5% de minimis exemption patterned after the “emerging markets” exemption in the Guidance; swaps of non-US CSE’s executed through or by a US branch should receive exemption; and margin rules should only take effect 12 months after rules are finalized by global regulators..

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ISDA AGM Studio: Sid Nadella, Google Cloud

Sid Nadella, director and global head of capital markets solutions at Google Cloud, speaks to Joel Clark, ISDA’s senior director of communications, on the extent artificial intelligence is being used by financial institutions and the biggest risks and challenges of...

ISDA Response to CFTC on 24/7 Trading

On May 21, ISDA, the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) and its asset management group (SIFMA AMG) submitted a joint response to the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) request for comment on 24/7 trading and clearing. The...