ISDA Legal opinions currently cover South Africa, Mauritius and Nigeria. ISDA is working on a number of other jurisdictions in sub-Saharan Africa, including Ghana, Namibia, Kenya, Morocco, Egypt and Tanzania.

Due to continued interest and efforts in a number of key jurisdictions, ISDA has set up distribution lists specific to these jurisdictions. Each distribution list addresses topical issues of importance to ISDA members active in that jurisdiction, such as submissions on proposed new laws and regulations in that country.

The Asian WGMR Implementation Group was formed with the objectives of 1) tracking and sharing of information related to margining regulation in the APAC region, and 2) identifying and resolving jurisdiction-specific margining implementation issues specific to the APAC region. This discussion group will coordinate its activities and share information with the WGMR Oversight Committee to ensure maximal harmonization and consistency with global implementation best practices.

The ISDA APAC ESG Working Group provides a forum for industry participants to discuss regulatory, legal and documentation issues of ESG-related derivatives products in the Asia-Pacific region.

A working group to consider fallbacks for APAC benchmarks.

To review portfolio reconciliation SOPs in APAC jurisdictions.

The ISDA Asia Capital Group serves as a forum for issues related to the implementation of Basel III standards that are relevant to derivatives in the Asia-Pacific region (excluding Japan). The focus of the forum is to coordinate responses to Basel-III related consultations that are applicable to derivatives from regulators in the region. The group determines and coordinates responses through industry discussions and regulatory advocacy by coordinating with the relevant global Risk & Capital forums.

A working group to address risks in derivatives contracts of permanent discontinuation of LIBOR, EURIBOR or TIBOR in USD. Representatives include dealers, end users, CCPs and benchmark administrators.

To discuss the results with the participating banks

Develop and then execute an advocacy position on the upcoming European Commission proposal to review EMIR