ISDA Asset Class Tie-breaker Logic

This note outlines the best practice asset class tie-breaker logic, developed by ISDA working groups and adopted by the industry, to determine the reporting counterparty (“RP”) and/or the Unique Trade Identifier generating party (“UTI GP”) under jurisdictional or global trade reporting requirements.

This document was updated in 2018 to reflect industry working group agreement that “cancellable swaps” are categorized in Rates as ‘exotic’ for reporting, to help improve consistency of RCP determination for cancellable swaps.

ISDA Publishes FpML Version 5.14

ISDA has published a new version of its Financial products Markup Language (FpML), a widely used open-source standard for the electronic dealing and processing of derivatives transactions. The latest iteration – version 5.14 – incorporates several key modifications and updates...

Accounting for Tokenized Assets as Collateral

The use of tokenized assets as collateral for derivatives and securities financing transactions (SFTs) is emerging as a significant development in global capital markets. Financial institutions are increasingly evaluating tokenized representations of money market funds, government securities and other high-quality...