ISDA AGM Studio: Sebastian ‘Benny’ Crapanzano II and Jacques Vigner

Sebastian Crapanzano, ISDA board member, global co-head of financial resources and strategy and global head of market and counterparty risk, institutional securities group, at Morgan Stanley, and Jacques Vigner, ISDA board member and chief strategic oversight officer for global markets at BNP Paribas, speak with Mark Gheerbrant, ISDA’s global head of risk and capital, about the US Basel III endgame, the viability of internal models for market risk under the Fundamental Review of the Trading Book and what more needs to be done to support a consistent, risk-sensitive capital framework.

Remove Bureaucracy from Cross-margin Approvals

Cross-margining programs play a critical role in financial markets. By ensuring margin requirements more closely reflect the actual risk of a portfolio of products, they reduce liquidity strain and improve market efficiency, both of which will become even more important...

Joint Response on CCP Resolution

On September 7, ISDA and FIA responded to a Bank of England (BOE) discussion paper on central counterparty (CCP) resolution. The associations support greater clarity on valuation capabilities prior to a crisis scenario and the boundary between recovery and resolution,...