International Swaps and Derivatives Association

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International Swaps and Derivatives Association

A professional organization for traders in swaps and other derivatives. It serves as a lobbying group for the profession with the United States government, and sets uniform practices for members. Importantly, it writes and periodically updates the ISDA Master Agreement, which is a standardized contract for OTC derivatives. It maintains its headquarters in New York City.

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Adjoint, developer of a smart contracts platform and distributed ledger technology for the financial services industry, has announced that it has joined International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA), the company said.

Adjoint joins ISDA

24 April 2013 -- New York-based trade organisation The International Swaps and Derivatives Association Inc said it is teaming up with financial risk management publication Risk to sponsor and conduct an annual awards program for over-the-counter derivatives research.

-International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Risk team on awards programme

The contract, which the International Swaps and Derivatives Association developed with the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, has pre-agreed terms including on coupons and payment dates, according to a press release distributed today at ISDA's annual general meeting in Singapore.

ISDA Rolls Out Standardized Interest-Rate Swap Contract

The International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) has published a new analysis of the over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives market based on year-end statistics published by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and LCH.

ISDA publishes OTC derivatives market analysis

For example, municipal derivatives transactions are typically documented using globally recognized documentation published by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association.

Understanding municipal derivatives

Between 1987 and 2002, the amount of outstanding currency and interest rate swaps and options increased from $865 billion to nearly $100 trillion, according to the International Swaps and Derivatives Association.

In Defense of derivatives: between Enron, WorldCom, and Global Crossing, the controversial financial instruments have gotten a bad rap. Here's the truth

A third lease involved the International Swaps and Derivatives Association Inc.

With 3 more tenants, 360 Madison Ave. 85 percent full

The International Swaps and Derivatives Association has issued a review of collateral management practices that draws lessons from collateral managers' experiences during the LTCM episode and other recent periods of market volatility.

Statements to the Congress

To curb our legal risks, we execute International Swaps and Derivatives Association master agreements with many institutions, both those we're currently working with and those we think we'll use later.

The reins on risk

Partly in response to concerns that Board members and other regulators expressed about prospects for implementation, the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) recently announced a set of new initiatives to foster adoption of the report's recommendations by derivatives users.

Statement by Susan M. Phillips, Member, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System before the Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs, U.S. House of Representatives, October 28, 1993