Liquidity and Risk Management in Single-name CDS and Implications for MIFIR

On April 27, ISDA finalized a paper addressing recent concerns about clearing, illiquidity and opacity of single-name credit default swaps (CDS). The paper includes analysis of US rules and data underpinning an outline for a workable transparency regime for single-name CDS, balancing both liquidity and transparency.

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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...