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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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Market Transformation – IQ May 2026

On the 250th anniversary of American independence, this year’s ISDA Annual General Meeting (AGM) was held in Boston, a city that played a prominent role in the American Revolution. In his opening remarks, ISDA chief executive Scott O’Malia drew a parallel between those events and what he described as a revolution currently taking place in financial markets – a transformation driven by rapid advances in technology. That transformation formed the basis for much of the first day of the...

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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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10 Years of the ISDA SIMM

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Episode 59: Reducing Burdens

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FX Definitions Update InfoHub

The 2026 FX Definitions were published on March 3, 2026 in MyLibrary. This page will continue to serve as a...

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: The Impact of Derivatives

Companies around the globe rely on derivatives to transfer unwanted risk, enhance returns and manage their liquidity needs. ISDA’s new...

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 78 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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2026 FX Definitions

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ISDA Omnibus Canadian Representation Letter

On September 2, ISDA published the Omnibus Canadian Representation Letter, which combines previously published representation letters drafted to assist firms in compliance with Canadian trade reporting, business conduct, regulatory margin and clearing classification rules. The Omnibus Canadian Letter is designed...

Joint Response on Cross-margining

On August 31, ISDA and FIA submitted a letter to the US Commodity Futures and Trading Commission (CFTC) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on the agencies’ joint request for comment on the implementation of portfolio margining and cross-margining...

Accounting for Carbon Credits: Latest Developments

This paper updates and extends the analysis set out in ISDA’s October 2023 paper on accounting for carbon credits. While preserving the original focus on the accounting treatment of voluntary carbon credits (VCCs) and compliance carbon credits (CCCs), it expands...

Response to SEC on FICC Guaranty Fund

On September 1, ISDA and FIA submitted a joint response to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), supporting the Fixed Income Clearing Corporation’s (FICC) proposal to establish a dedicated guaranty fund at its government securities division (GSD). FICC had...

Korea – FSS published its Guidelines on Margin Requirements for Non-Centrally Cleared OTC Derivatives Transactions

On September 1, the Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) of Korea published its Guidelines on Margin Requirements for Non-Centrally Cleared OTC Derivatives Transactions. The guidelines extend the temporary exemption for equity options from the margin requirements until August 31, 2027. ISDA...

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