International Swaps and Derivatives Association (Isda)
A year of market movement and trading opportunities
Sponsored forum: US inflation derivatives
Dealers seek second business conduct reprieve from CFTC
Less than 1% of counterparties are ready to trade under new regime. Non-compliant firms may be frozen out of the market, banks warn
Bucking the trend: Derivatives market liberalisation in China
Bucking the trend
New standard CSA to launch before end of the year
New standard CSA aims to reduce valuation disputes by eliminating the embedded optionality that exists in the current document
Dodd-Frank and its impact on Asia
States of confusion
Dealers working to keep Asian entities outside Dodd-Frank
As the CFTC prepares to finalise its rules on extraterritoriality, some firms in Asia are working to minimise the impact on non-US entities
Editor's letter: More effort required
More effort required
CFTC facing struggle to revive commodity position limits
Limited appeal
OTC Derivatives Clearing Summit Europe: No need to panic about collateral supply, says Bank of England
Isda estimates that mandatory clearing and margin could require the posting of up to $30 trillion of initial margin have been inflated, not least because of a likely exemption for forex swaps and forwards, according to a senior BoE official
Changing hats - November 2012
Arrivals and departures in the operational risk and regulation businesses
Time running out for buy-side clearing docs negotiation, dealers warn
Buy-side firms need to begin negotiating OTC clearing documentation now or risk being forced to adopt one-size-fits-all standard templates
Standard docs may not prevent clearing contract crunch
Preventing a clearing contract crunch
Position limits rejection lifts compliance burden
Rejection of Commodity Futures Trading Commission rule brings short-term relief and longer-term uncertainty, say consultants
Court ruling may be death of CFTC’s position limits
Experts say appeal is unlikely – and CFTC must prove commodity market speculation before re-proposing limits
ALM Europe: Basel right to rein in capital models, says EIB exec
Regulators should be more intuitive in their approach to capital levels, EIB treasury risk head tells conference
Asian energy markets liquid enough to sidestep Dodd-Frank compliant firms
The extraterritorial impact of the US Dodd-Frank could be sidestepped by Asian players opting to conduct swap trades with players outside of the regulation’s orbit
SG opens door to Singapore retail investors as new financial adviser regime implemented
New rules governing the sale and distribution of structured products in Singapore are set to be put to the test with the first product issued since the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy
European OTC clearing documentation faces delay
Complications over close-out mechanisms and segregation models will delay the European addendum by up to three months, say dealers
Isda defends trading book models in response to Basel proposals
Isda pushes alternatives to Basel Committee review of trading book capital rules in leaked comment letter
New Isda protocol may not fix business conduct bottleneck
Dealers hope to comply with new business conduct rules by amending thousands of Isda master agreements – but a standardised protocol published last month is expected to leave some clients cold
Industry split over Basel trading book review
Comment period ends on September 7, but banks are struggling to find common ground
