ISDA Response to FCA and PRA on Margining Requirements

On June 20, ISDA responded to a joint Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) consultation, welcoming their proposal to indefinitely exempt single stock equity options and index options from the UK bilateral margining requirements. ISDA also welcomed two other proposals by the regulators to reduce the burden of the bilateral margining regime in the UK.

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ISDA Response on Clearing Costs

On September 8, ISDA responded to consultation by the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) on a draft regulatory technical standard on clearing fees and associated costs (article 7c(4) of the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR)). In the response, ISDA...

ISDA Response on Margin Transparency

On September 8, ISDA responded to a consultation by the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) on a draft regulatory technical standard under the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR 3.0) on margin transparency requirements. ISDA’s members are supportive of margin...

Paper on Liquidity Assessment for Single-name CDS

On September 5, ISDA submitted a paper to the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) and the European Commission in support of its earlier response to ESMA’s Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MIFIR) review consultation package 4 (CP4) on transparency...

Response to EC on Delegated Regulation

On September 4, ISDA responded to the European Commission’s (EC) consultation on amendments to delegated regulation (EU) 2017.567. The key area of interest for ISDA was the proposed insertion of a new article 16a that establishes what constitutes a post-trade...