ISDA Letter to FSB GUUG – Global UTI Implementation

Individual jurisdictions are currently amending or drafting transaction reporting rules.  This ISDA letter to the Financial Stability Board’s (FSB) Working Group on UTI and UPI Governance (GUUG) requests more active, improved coordination of global UTI implementation timelines and alignment to the CPMI-IOSCO Harmonisation Group recommendations, even while the final International Governance Body is being established.

Documents (1) for ISDA Letter to FSB GUUG – Global UTI Implementation

10 Years of the ISDA SIMM

As the derivatives industry prepared for the September 2016 implementation of initial margin requirements for non-cleared derivatives, one challenge stood out: counterparties needed to agree on the amount of initial margin to be exchanged. But if each firm developed its...

Expanding the Universe of Eligible VM

ISDA conducted a series of interviews with buy- and sell-side firms to understand the drivers of a growing use of non-cash assets as variation margin (VM) for non-cleared over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives and the barriers that remain to expanding the use...

ISDA Response on Hedge Accounting Guidance

On August 14, ISDA responded to an exposure draft from the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB). ISDA broadly supports the FASB’s proposed targeted improvements to hedge accounting, including allowing interest rate hedging of held-to-maturity (HTM) debt securities, recognizing all Secured...

Joint Response to EBA Consultation

On August 12, ISDA and the Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) responded to the European Banking Authority’s discussion paper on certain taxonomy key performance indicators (KPIs) and other aspects of the Disclosures Delegated Act  under Article 8 of...