International Swaps and Derivatives Association (Isda)

Isda publishes new master agreement

Industry trade body the International Swaps and Derivatives Association has produced a new ‘master agreement’, a legal contract designed to standardise over-the-counter derivatives deals. It is the first time the document has been revised since 1992

Trade associations launch IRB survey

The International Swaps and Derivatives Association, the Risk Management Association and the British Bankers' Association today launched a survey of the validation of banks' internal credit ratings, a key element underlying the internal ratings-based …

Trade associations launch IRB survey

The International Swaps and Derivatives Association, the Risk Management Association and the British Bankers' Association today launched a survey of the validation of banks' internal credit ratings, a key element underlying the internal ratings-based …

Isda presses Congress for passage of netting provisions

The International Swaps and Derivatives Association, the trade association for the financial risk management industry, has teamed with other key trade bodies in pressing the United States Congress to secure favourable passage of legislation on financial…

Isda worried about OTC regulation threats

The International Swaps and Derivatives Association is still voicing concern about attempts by US Californian Democrat senator Dianne Feinstein to regulate the energy and commodity derivatives market.

Marconi restructuring sparks credit derivatives confusion

Plans unveiled today by troubled UK telecoms company, Marconi, to restructure and reduce its debt to under a billion have caused confusion in the credit derivatives community. Traders said they were unsure whether the language used in the Marconi…

Isda changes Japan credit derivatives documentation

Japan’s credit derivatives dealers have opted to drop ‘obligation acceleration’ and ‘repudiation/moratorium’ from the list of credit events for standard credit default swap transactions, bringing Japan in line with the European and US credit derivatives…

Isda welcomes “positive” Basel II statement

The progress statement on the Basel II bank accord issued today by global regulators was mostly positive, said officials at the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (Isda), the trade body for the world’s financial risk management industry.

Isda to testify before Senate committee

The International Swaps and Derivatives Association will today testify that there is no need for further over-the-counter energy derivatives regulation. Representatives of the trade association, due to speak before the US Senate Committee on Agriculture,…

Isda issues guidelines on counterparty transfers

The International Swaps and Derivatives Association (Isda) has published guidelines to deal with cases where two parties have entered into one or more transactions and where one of the parties transfers its rights and obligations to a new counterparty.

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