On October 25, ISDA CEO Scott O’Malia wrote to Chris Hayward, policy chairman of the City of London Corporation, in response to its report with Oliver Wyman, Vision for Economic Growth, a roadmap to prosperity. The report captures the critical outcomes required to ensure the UK’s position as a leading global finance center. The letter proposes how the City of London Corporation, in partnership with UK authorities, can leverage ISDA’s work on digitization in the derivatives industry and the expansion of the voluntary carbon market.
Documents (1) for ISDA Letter on Vision for UK as a Global Finance Center
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Expanding Legal Agreement Coverage in the CDM
This paper examines the recent extension of the Common Domain Model (CDM)1 to represent two of the most significant, and previously undeveloped, areas of its legal agreement model: umbrella agreements and contract amendments. Umbrella agreements are widely used to document...
ISDA Omnibus Canadian Representation Letter
On September 2, ISDA published the Omnibus Canadian Representation Letter, which combines previously published representation letters drafted to assist firms in compliance with Canadian trade reporting, business conduct, regulatory margin and clearing classification rules. The Omnibus Canadian Letter is designed...
Joint Response on Cross-margining
On August 31, ISDA and FIA submitted a letter to the US Commodity Futures and Trading Commission (CFTC) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on the agencies’ joint request for comment on the implementation of portfolio margining and cross-margining...
Accounting for Carbon Credits: Latest Developments
This paper updates and extends the analysis set out in ISDA’s October 2023 paper on accounting for carbon credits. While preserving the original focus on the accounting treatment of voluntary carbon credits (VCCs) and compliance carbon credits (CCCs), it expands...