ISDA responds EFRAG Paper on Equity Instruments

On May 30, ISDA’s accounting committee responded to the European Financial Reporting Advisory Group’s (EFRAG) discussion paper Equity Instruments – Impairment and Recycling. ISDA’s members will continue to provide input to the EFRAG as it develops its technical advice to the European Commission (EC) on recycling and impairment of equity instruments designated at fair value through other comprehensive income, as this is a significant topic for the European financial reporting community.

The CPI Quandary

The recent US government shutdown didn’t just create weeks of political drama – it also left inflation-linked swaps dealers with a major headache: how should they determine an initial value for new trades given the US Bureau of Labor Statistics...

ISDA Response to HMT, BoE on UK CCPs

On November 18, ISDA submitted its responses to the Bank of England (BoE) consultation on ensuring the resilience of central counterparties (CCPs) and the UK Treasury’s (HMT) two draft CCP statutory instruments (SIs). These consultations form part of the update...

Doubling Down on Appropriate Trading Book Capital

Throughout ISDA’s 40th anniversary year, we’ve been reflecting on the quest for greater consistency and efficiency that underpins everything we’ve achieved since 1985. It was at the heart of the original efforts to bring greater standardization to the nascent derivatives...