This protocol (which is NOT an updated version of the August 2012 DF Protocol) facilitates compliance with the CFTC’s rulemakings on (i) Swap Trading Relationship Documentation, Confirmation, Portfolio Reconciliation and Portfolio Compression, (ii) End-User Exception to the Clearing Requirement and (iii) Clearing Requirement Determination. Required Compliance Start Date: July 1, 2013. <b>The March 2013 Dodd Frank Protocol questionnaire will be available on ISDA Amend to all users on May 20, 2013. There will be live daily demos starting May 20th (please see ISDA Amend Availability note below).</b>

This Protocol is part of ISDA’s Dodd-Frank Documentation Initiative relating to compliance with the CFTC’s External Business Conduct Rules. Required Compliance Start Date: May 1, 2013.

The ISDA 2018 U.S. Resolution Stay Protocol was created to allow market participants to comply with regulations issued by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (12 C.F.R. §§ 252.2, 252.81-88), the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (12 C.F.R. §§ 382.1-7) and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (12 C.F.R. §§ 47.1-8) (US Stay Regulations). The US Stay Regulations impose requirements on the terms of swaps, repos and other qualified financial contracts of global systemically important banking organizations.

The ISDA 2013 EMIR Portfolio Reconciliation, Dispute Resolution and Disclosure Protocol enables parties to amend the terms of their Protocol Covered Agreements to reflect the portfolio reconciliation and dispute resolution requirements imposed by EMIR as well as to include a disclosure waiver to help ensure parties can meet the various reporting and record keeping requirements under EMIR without breaching confidentiality restrictions.

The Singapore Jurisdictional Module to the ISDA Resolution Stay Jurisdictional Modular Protocol enables entities subject to the Singapore Regulation to amend the terms of their Covered Agreements by obtaining from certain counterparties a contractual recognition of the application of stays on termination with respect to requirements of the Singapore Regulation.

The ISDA 2021 SBS Top-Up Protocol (the “SBS Top-Up Protocol”) is part of ISDA’s Dodd-Frank Documentation Initiative aimed at assisting the industry in implementing and complying with the regulatory requirements imposed under Title VII of the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (“Dodd-Frank”). Specifically, the SBS Top-Up Protocol facilitates industry compliance with rulemakings promulgated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) related to Security-Based Swaps (“SBS”). For those parties who have adhered to either or both of ISDA’s August 2012 DF Protocol and March 2013 DF Protocol, this protocol allows the terms previously included by the parties for CFTC compliance to be “topped up” for SEC compliance.

This Benchmark Module enables parties to Protocol Covered Documents to amend the terms of each such Protocol Covered Document to (i) in respect of a Protocol Covered Document which incorporates, or references a rate as defined in, a Covered ISDA Definitions Booklet, include in the terms of such Protocol Covered Document certain terms relating to fallbacks for a Relevant Benchmark included in Version 10.0 of the ISDA 2021 Interest Rate Derivatives Definitions (the “2021 Definitions”) or such equivalent provisions as they relate to that Covered ISDA Definitions Booklet and (ii) in respect of a Protocol Covered Document which otherwise references a Relevant Benchmark, include in the terms of such Protocol Covered Document new fallbacks for that Relevant Benchmark.

The ISDA 2018 Benchmarks Supplement Protocol was created to allow market participants to incorporate the ISDA Benchmarks Supplement into relevant transactions under existing master agreements quickly and efficiently.

The South African Jurisdictional Module to the ISDA Resolution Stay Jurisdictional Modular Protocol enables entities subject to the South African Regulation to amend the terms of their Covered Agreements by obtaining from certain counterparties a contractual recognition of the application of stays on termination with respect to requirements of the South African Regulation.

The ISDA 2023 Equity Swap – 2021 Definitions Protocol (the “Equity Swap Protocol”) offers market participants an efficient way to update certain Equity Swap transactions to reference the ISDA Interest Rate Derivatives Definitions (the “2021 Definitions”) replacing the 2006 ISDA Definitions.