Industry Letter on Investment Firm Review – Third Country Firm Regime

ISDA is among seven trades bodies that have written to European (EU) policy-makers to warn that some of the provisions being contemplated in the Investment Firms Review regarding requirements for non-EU investment firms to be able to do business with EU firms would be to the detriment of EU financial and non-financial counterparties and EU venues.

Documents (1) for Industry Letter on Investment Firm Review – Third Country Firm Regime

Recognition of Cross-product Netting is Critical

US regulators are in the process of making important changes to the regulatory capital framework by proposing modifications to the enhanced supplementary leverage ratio, which should help stop it from acting as a non-risk-sensitive constraint on bank capacity – a...

ISDA, GFXD Response to FCA on SI Regime

On September 10, ISDA and the Global Foreign Exchange Division (GFXD) of the Global Financial Markets Association responded to the Financial Conduct Authority's (FCA) consultation paper CP25/20 on the systematic internalizer (SI) regime for derivatives and bonds. ISDA and the...

ISDA Response on Clearing Costs

On September 8, ISDA responded to consultation by the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) on a draft regulatory technical standard on clearing fees and associated costs (article 7c(4) of the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR)). In the response, ISDA...