ISDA AGM 2019: Douglas J. Donahue, Linklaters LLP

At its 34th Annual General Meeting in Hong Kong, ISDA caught up with Douglas J. Donahue, Partner, Linklaters LLP, and asked him: “To what extent can derivatives documentation be automated and digitized, and what needs to happen to achieve this?”

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...