McCarthy v. Intercontinental Exchange

The Chamber of Commerce, SIFMA, ISDA, the Bank Policy Institute and the Loan Syndications and Trading Association submitted an amicus brief, in support of defendants, in the U.S. District Court in the Northern District of California. The amicus brief urges the court to grant defendants’ motion to dismiss the complaint in in McCarthy v. Intercontinental Exchange, a case involving the issue of whether the establishment of an industry financial benchmark, such as U.S. Dollar LIBOR, and related sale of financial products based on that benchmark, constitutes a per se violation of U.S. federal antitrust laws’ prohibition on illegal price fixing.

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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...