Notice of Proposed Rulemaking – Regulatory Capital Rules: Standardized Approach for Risk-weighted Assets; Market Discipline and Disclosure Requirements

Letter to Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. This response is targeted to the specific risk-based capital requirements for derivative and repo-style transactions that are cleared on central counterparties (CCP Rules). (OCC RIN 1557-AD46; OCC Docket ID OCC-2012-0009; FRB RIN 7100 AD 87; FRB Docket No. R-1442; FDIC RIN 3064-AD96)

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Refreshing the FX Definitions

A lot has changed in the FX derivatives market since 1998, when the last set of standard definitions for FX transactions were published. Trading volumes have grown substantially, and average daily turnover has risen by six times. Market practices have...

ISDA & EMTA Publish New FX Definitions

ISDA and EMTA, Inc., the trade association for emerging markets, have jointly published a revised set of standard definitions for foreign exchange (FX) derivatives transactions, which update key market practices and consolidate various FX and FX-related product templates and provisions...

ISDA Position Paper on SFDR Review

On February 27, ISDA and the Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) published a position paper on the European Commission’s (EC) proposed revisions to the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR 2.0). The paper welcomes the EC’s proposal as a...