ISDA AGM Studio: Tom Wipf and David Bowman

Ann Battle, senior counsel, market transitions at ISDA, talks to David Bowman, senior associate director at the Federal Reserve, and Tom Wipf, vice chairman at Morgan Stanley and chair of the Alternative Reference Rates Committee, about the role of the ISDA IBOR fallbacks in the transition from US dollar LIBOR.

Addressing Termination Troubles

When Enron announced a shock $618 million loss on October 16, 2001, it took a further 47 days until it filed for bankruptcy. For Bear Stearns, it took 266 days between its bailout of a structured credit fund run by...