ISDA AGM Studio: Kevin Khokhar and Sophie Marnhier-Foy

Kevin Khokhar, head of investment funding solutions at T. Rowe Price Associates, and Sophie Marnhier-Foy, senior director, product strategy at Adenza, talk to ISDA’s head of collateral initiatives, Amy Caruso, about how greater standardization and automation of collateral management processes could help to address some of the challenges that arose during recent market shocks.

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...