If you trade interest rate derivatives, it is virtually certain that your trade confirmations incorporate the 2006 ISDA Definitions. As market practice and regulation have developed over the past 15 ...

Derivatives are financial products that derive their value from the price of an underlying asset. Derivatives are often used by traders as a device to speculate on the future price movements of an ...

The outbreak of the novel coronavirus COVID-19 has implications for derivatives contracts. For example, some companies are asserting that the reported disruptions in the global supply-chain and travel ...

Testifying before a joint meeting of the House Financial Services Committee and the House Agriculture Committee, Geithner provided little in the way of solid progress on his plans to regulate OTC ...

Supra-national regulator the European Securities and Market Authority has written to the European Commission to ask for a single Europe-wide definition of a derivative or derivative contract.

Major changes in Isda’s latest definitions, compared with its 1999 set, include: a new test for identifying the successor to a reference entity, and amendments to credit events such as bankruptcy, ...

The International Swaps and Derivatives Association (Isda) is planning a web-based versioning platform for the upcoming release of its 2020 Isda Interest Rate Derivatives Definitions. The trade ...

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has sent a letter to the European Commission asking for clarification of the definition of a derivative or derivative contracts under the European ...

Market participants have advised Europe’s securities watchdog to keep the specifications for deciding which OTC derivatives can be cleared as broad as possible to avoid circumvention of new ...