ISDA Legal Opinions and COVID-19

ISDA is monitoring the status of emergency insolvency legislation in jurisdictions covered by ISDA netting opinions and informal country updates. The monitor is available below and will be updated on a regular basis:

COVID-19 Monitor

Please visit ISDA’s COVID-19 page for information on more developments following COVID-19.

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...