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Acadia Teams Up with Logical Construct to Further Strengthen Client Experience of Agreement Manager
Partnership aims to strengthen Company’s data and agreements digitization offerings Norwell, MA, October 19, 2021 - Acadia, the leading industry provider of integrated risk management services for the derivatives community, today has announced a strategic partnership...
Digitisation highlights at the ISDA AGM
The fact that this year the AGM operated as a virtual conference is perhaps a fitting backdrop for the push towards digitisation in the derivatives markets. While obviously lacking the easy networking that naturally comes from in-person events, the content delivery...
The future of derivatives, securities lending and repo contract flows
Putting it all together - ISDA Collateral toolkit, Common Domain Model, Clause Library, Smart Contracts. Back in 2013, Paul Kelly and I documented the state of negotiated ISDA documentation and the challenges it posed for the negotiation and onboarding processes as...
ISDA Common Domain Model: Get In Tune
The ISDA Common Domain Model (CDM) is a digital representation of the events and actions surrounding derivatives trading, a standardisation initiative that ISDA has been working on for a few years. Version 2.0 of the CDM included an initial representation of the ISDA...
Derivatives Contract Risk
Better risk management preparations in light of COVID-19 Shock The economic fall out from the global pandemic is already being felt in a number of places in the financial sector, but the true extent is still largely hidden with governments doing their best to prop up...
Regulatory Capital / IMM
The ECB recently published its assessment methodology for banks using the internal model method (IMM) for calculating counterparty credit risk and credit valuation adjustment risk. Given the very large differences IMM has on regulatory capital versus standard...