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.

Remove Bureaucracy from Cross-margin Approvals

Cross-margining programs play a critical role in financial markets. By ensuring margin requirements more closely reflect the actual risk of a portfolio of products, they reduce liquidity strain and improve market efficiency, both of which will become even more important...

Joint Response on CCP Resolution

On September 7, ISDA and FIA responded to a Bank of England (BOE) discussion paper on central counterparty (CCP) resolution. The associations support greater clarity on valuation capabilities prior to a crisis scenario and the boundary between recovery and resolution,...