ISDA Publishes ISDA SIMM™ v2.2

ISDA has published the ISDA SIMM™ Methodology, version 2.2, with an Effective Date of December 1, 2019. This version of SIMM includes updates based on the full recalibration and industry backtesting of the methodology.   It also includes additional granularity for the FX asset class, the removal of curvature margin from equity volatility indexes and an alteration to allow for annual calibration of credit non-qualifying intra-bucket correlations.

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Response to EC Consultation on Carbon Price

On June 10, ISDA responded to the European Commission’s (EC) consultation on the calculation of the carbon price paid in a third country under Article 9 of the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM). ISDA supports the EC’s proposal that evidence...

Response to CFTC on Clearing Requirements

On June 11, ISDA responded to the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s notice of proposed rulemaking on the clearing requirement determination under Section 2(h) of the Commodity Exchange Act for interest rate swaps to account for Canadian dollar-denominated and Mexican...

Digital Assets and Derivatives: Where Next?

Digital assets are moving into a phase of institutional integration into derivatives markets. Trading venues, custodial infrastructures and tokenization platforms now exist across both traditional financial markets and public blockchain networks. While this diversity has accelerated innovation and liquidity formation,...