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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.
More about ISDACreating Value – IQ June 2025
Ever since its establishment 40 years ago, ISDA has worked to enhance the safety and efficiency of derivatives markets. That has motivated everything we do – from the development of standard documentation and the rollout of new digital solutions to our responses to regulatory consultations.In our view, safe and efficient markets are critical prerequisites for liquidity and competition – and that matters. Without deep and liquid markets, it would be more difficult and expensive for...
Learn moreThe 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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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...
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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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Nov 26, 2025Doubling Down on Appropriate Trading Book Capital
Throughout ISDA’s 40th anniversary year, we’ve been reflecting on the quest for greater consistency and efficiency that underpins everything we’ve achieved since 1985. It was at the heart of the original efforts to bring greater standardization to the nascent derivatives...
Inflation
Nov 25, 2025Determining Initial Reference Index for New Trades
On November 25, 2025, ISDA published a Market Practice Note (MPN) to recommend a specific methodology that market participants could elect to use for the purposes of determining the Initial Reference Index for certain new inflation derivative transactions given that...
Europe
Nov 24, 2025ISDA Response to FCA on Fund Tokenization
On November 21, ISDA responded to the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) consultation paper CP25/28 on progressing fund tokenization. In the response, ISDA focuses on the use of tokenized assets as both cleared and non-cleared derivatives collateral. Tokenization presents a significant...
Tax & Accounting
Nov 24, 2025ISDA Requests FASB to Consider ASC 815
On November 19, ISDA submitted a request to the Emerging Issues Task Force (EITF) of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) to clarify whether FASB Accounting Standards Codification (ASC) 815 does not prohibit using the spot method to assess hedge...
Digital Asset
Nov 21, 2025ISDA Response to CFTC Tokenized Collateral and Stablecoin Initiative
ISDA has responded to the CFTC’s Request for Input on the Tokenized Collateral and Stablecoin Initiative, offering perspectives on how tokenization and GENIUS Act–compliant payment stablecoins might contribute to more efficient and resilient collateral practices in derivatives markets. The letter...
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