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.

Refreshing the FX Definitions

A lot has changed in the FX derivatives market since 1998, when the last set of standard definitions for FX transactions were published. Trading volumes have grown substantially, and average daily turnover has risen by six times. Market practices have...

ISDA & EMTA Publish New FX Definitions

ISDA and EMTA, Inc., the trade association for emerging markets, have jointly published a revised set of standard definitions for foreign exchange (FX) derivatives transactions, which update key market practices and consolidate various FX and FX-related product templates and provisions...

ISDA Position Paper on SFDR Review

On February 27, ISDA and the Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) published a position paper on the European Commission’s (EC) proposed revisions to the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR 2.0). The paper welcomes the EC’s proposal as a...