ISDA AGM Studio: Tom Jasper and Eric Litvack

ISDA’s 40th anniversary was a key theme of this year’s Annual General Meeting. To mark this milestone, Nick Sawyer, ISDA’s global head of communications, talked to Tom Jasper, managing partner at Manursing Partners, who established and led the interest rate swaps team at Salomon Brothers and served as ISDA’s first co-chair, and Eric Litvack, managing director and group head of public affairs at Société Générale and ISDA’s longest-serving chair, who stepped down in 2024.

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