JAC Letter to the EC and ESAs on PRIIPs

On June 23, 2016, the Joint Associations Committee on Retail Structured Products (JAC) called on the European Commission and European Supervisory Authorities to address outstanding and open questions on the packaged retail and Insurance-based investment products (PRIIPs) regulation. This letter, co-signed by ISDA and the Swedish Structured Investments Products Association, covered the key areas of FX forwards in deliverable currencies, generic key information document for over-the-counter derivatives and grandfathering and secondary trading.

Digital Assets and Derivatives: Where Next?

Digital assets are moving into a phase of institutional integration into derivatives markets. Trading venues, custodial infrastructures and tokenization platforms now exist across both traditional financial markets and public blockchain networks. While this diversity has accelerated innovation and liquidity formation,...

Launch of US Treasury Repo Market Indicators

ISDA has launched the ISDA-Actrix US Treasury Repo Market Clearing Indicators in collaboration with Actrix. The indicators illustrate central clearing adoption in the US Treasury repo market. Sponsored cleared repo volumes are used as a proxy to monitor client participation...