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ISDA fosters safe and efficient derivatives markets to facilitate effective risk management for all users of derivatives products. ISDA achieves its mission by representing all market participants globally, promoting high standards of commercial conduct that enhance market integrity, and leading industry action on derivatives issues.

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Marking a Milestone – IQ January 2025

It was a different time and a very different market, but 1985 remains a seminal year in the history of over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives – the year that ISDA was established and the very first industry standard document was published. While modest in its scope and ambitions, the Code of Standard Wording, Assumptions and Provisions for Swaps (Code of SWAPS) put in place a new status quo, based on the recognition that collaboration was the best way to solve shared industry challenges. Forty...

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ISDA Solutions InfoHub

The ISDA Solutions InfoHub integrates ISDA’s full suite of mutualized digital solutions, covering legal, data and risk. Each solution is designed to help firms standardize, optimize and automate key aspects of the derivatives process cost-effectively and at scale.

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The Value of OTC Derivatives: Empowering Organizations to Manage Risks, Enhance Returns and Optimize Liquidity

The over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives market is a cornerstone of the global financial system, enabling corporations, governments and financial institutions around the world to manage risk, enhance returns, optimize liquidity and efficiently allocate capital. This creates value for users by fostering predictability, reducing costs, protecting against losses and dampening the impact of volatility on earnings – in turn, generating value for the broader economy by bringing greater stability...

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Apr 17, 2025

Four Reforms for Successful US Treasury Clearing

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Speeches & testimony

Apr 8, 2025

Scott O'Malia Testimony on US Treasury Clearing

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Capital

Apr 4, 2025

Cross-product Netting Under US Capital Rules

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The Value of OTC Derivatives

The over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives market is a cornerstone of the global financial system, enabling corporations, governments and financial institutions around...

ISDA Animation Video: The Value of Derivatives

Derivatives give companies the ability to raise financing at the best rate and manage their risks, enabling those firms to...

ISDA Publishes Close Out Framework

ISDA has published a new interactive digital framework that market participants can use to help prepare for potential terminations of...

The International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) fosters safe and efficient derivatives markets to facilitate effective risk management for all users of derivatives products. ISDA has over 1,000 member institutions from 76 countries, encompassing a wide range of market participants. These include corporations, investment managers, government and supranational entities, insurance companies, energy and commodities firms, and international and regional banks. ISDA membership also includes key components of the derivatives market infrastructure, such as exchanges, intermediaries, clearing houses, trade repositories, law firms, accounting firms and other service providers. Membership is categorized into three types: Primary (dealer firms); Associate (service providers); and Subscriber (end users).

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Four Reforms for Successful US Treasury Clearing

The US Treasury market is the world’s biggest and most systemically important market. It’s the oil that keeps the wheels of the global financial system turning and is the primary means by which the US government raises funding. It’s therefore...

ISDA Response to ESMA on CCP Model Validation

On April 7, ISDA responded to the European Securities and Markets Authority’s (ESMA) consultation on draft regulatory technical standards (RTS) under article 49(5) of the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR), on the conditions for an application for validation of model...

Scott O'Malia Testimony on US Treasury Clearing

On April 8, ISDA CEO Scott O'Malia testified on the implementation of mandatory US Treasury clearing before the US House of Representatives Committee on Financial Services Task Force on Monetary Policy, Treasury Market Resilience, and Economic Prosperity. “The US Treasury...

Joint Letter on Changes to French General Tax Code

On March 31, ISDA, the Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) and the International Securities Lending Association (ISLA) sent a letter to the French tax authority about changes being made to Articles 119 bis A and 119 bis 2...

Cross-product Netting Under US Capital Rules

ISDA, FIA and the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) have developed a discussion paper to: (i) provide an overview of cross-margining programs developed by clearing organizations and their importance in the context of implementing recent market reforms with...

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