ISDA’s Collateral Initiatives

ISDA is working with its members to develop and implement collateral management automated workflows and data standards that will reduce operational, liquidity and counterparty risks.

  • Automate workflows
  • Holistically manage collateral across products
  • Implement Common Domain Model (CDM) data standards and digitization use cases
  • Expand eligible collateral

 

CDM for Collateral Initiatives Use Cases

For more information, go to: CDM-Collateral Initiatives Fact Sheet.

CDM Collateral Start-up Guide

This resource is designed to learn more about the CDM for collateral management and how to implement it. This is targeted to the business user and structured as a set of short tutorials, giving you the opportunity to interact with the CDM and understand the features and tools available.

 

Currently Available

  • Document Digitization, including the ISDA Master Agreement and credit support annexes (CSAs) for legacy, initial margin and variation margin:
    Expedite collateral management onboarding and interoperability and decrease operational risks.
  • Collateral Representation:
    Streamline eligible collateral schedule data onboarding, interoperability and collateral settlement; improve business as usual data processing across collateralized products; and optimize collateral.
  • Margin Call, Collateral Positions and Balance Structure:
    Streamline margin call and collateral inventory data; improve liquidity management and collateral optimization; decrease settlement fails and Treasury Market Practice Group fees; and enable connectivity to digital regulatory reporting.
  • Cash Collateral Interest Calculation and Processing:
    Automate cash collateral calculation and payment process and decrease settlement fails.

 

Webinars

 

CDM Test Sample Data

  • CDM test sample data covering various ISDA CSA types and eligible collateral schedules can be reviewed and downloaded here.

 

ISDA’s Collateral Working Groups

  • Margin and Collateral Processing Working Group
  • CDM-Collateral Working Group (including members of the International Securities Lending Association and the International Capital Market Association)
  • Custodian Collateral Working Group (for custodian firms only)

To participate in any of the working groups above, please visit https://www.isda.org/committees/.

For additional information regarding ISDA’s collateral initiatives, please contact collateralinitiatives@isda.org.

 

ISDA Collateral Management Resources

Response to FCA on Commodity Derivatives Clearing

On April 9, ISDA, the Commodity Markets Council Europe (CMCE), Energy Traders Europe (ETE) and FIA jointly responded to Chapter 7 of the UK Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) Quarterly Consultation CP26/8 on increasing the clearing threshold for commodity derivatives under the UK...

Response on EC’s SFR Proposal

On April 9, ISDA published technical comments on the European Commission’s (EC) proposed Settlement Finality Regulation (SFR) as it applies to designated EU systems and registered third-country systems. One significant concern is that the scope of insolvency protections provided to...

Natixis CIB Adopts ISDA’s DRR

ISDA has announced that Natixis CIB has adopted ISDA’s Digital Regulatory Reporting (DRR) solution, enabling the bank to meet regulatory reporting requirements more efficiently and accurately. The ISDA DRR uses the Common Domain Model (CDM) – an open-source data standard...

Paper on MIFIR PTT

On April 7, ISDA, the Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME), the International Capital Market Association (ICMA) and the European Banking Federation (EBF) published a paper on proposals relating to post-trade transparency (PTT) under the Markets in Financial Instruments...