ISDA AGM 2019: Jack Hattem, BlackRock

At its 34th Annual General Meeting in Hong Kong, ISDA caught up with Jack Hattem, ISDA Board Member, Managing Director, Global Fixed Income, BlackRock, and asked him: “Is the transition from IBORs to alternative RFRs on track? What should market participants be doing now?”

Assessing Tokenized MMFs as Eligible Collateral

Distributed ledger technology and digital assets have matured from their early stages to solutions capable of addressing longstanding inefficiencies in collateral management. Tokenized money market funds (TMMFs) represent a particularly promising area for the application of this technology, combining the...

Response to EC on Carbon Accounting

On October 5, ISDA responded to the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission (EC) survey, drawing on input from five member firms across the banking, exchange and market-data sectors. The response highlighted broad support for internationally recognized carbon...