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*'''[[ISDA]]''': These days, probably the daddy, and copped less flack in the fallout from the [[CDO]] scandal than you might have expected. Executives from the [[BBA]] looked on enviously at the lack of attention ISDA garnered. Publishes the {{isdama}} and loads and loads of tedious [[The ISDA Protocol|protocol]]s
*'''[[ISDA]]''': These days, probably the daddy, and copped less flack in the fallout from the [[CDO]] scandal than you might have expected. Executives from the [[BBA]] looked on enviously at the lack of attention ISDA garnered. Publishes the {{isdama}} and loads and loads of tedious [[The ISDA Protocol|protocol]]s
*'''[[FIA]]''': The [[Futures Industry Association]], an American association of [[Exchange-traded derivatives|exchange-traded derivatives]] fans, who recently gobbled up their British counterparts, the [[Futures and Options Association]].  
*'''[[FIA]]''': The [[Futures Industry Association]], an American association of [[Exchange-traded derivatives|exchange-traded derivatives]] fans, who recently gobbled up their British counterparts, the [[Futures and Options Association]].  
*'''[[ISLA]]''': International Securities Lending Association. The {{gmsla}} and its American cousin the {{msla}}
*'''[[ISLA]]''': [[International Securities Lending Association]]. Publisher of the {{gmsla}}, {{pgmsla}} and the American {{msla}}
*'''[[ICMA]]''': [[International Capital Markets Association]]. [[Repo]]s are their main bag. They publish the [[GMRA]] and [[MRA]]. Once were called the [[Bond Market Association]]
*'''[[ICMA]]''': [[International Capital Markets Association]]. [[Repo]]s are their main bag. They publish the [[GMRA]] and [[MRA]]. Once were called the [[Bond Market Association]]
*'''[[UK Finance]]''': The artist formerly known as the [[British Bankers’ Association]]. Their main contribution to the world of finance was, ah, [[LIBOR]]. Oh dear. Oh, dear, oh dear. Now they don’t touch interbank rates with a barge-pole — no-one would let them even if they wanted to — so they restrict their activities to “enhanc[ing] competitiveness, support[ing] customers and facilitating] innovation”. So that’s nice.
*'''[[UK Finance]]''': The artist formerly known as the [[British Bankers’ Association]]. Their main contribution to the world of finance was, ah, [[LIBOR]]. Oh dear. Oh, dear, oh dear. Now they don’t touch interbank rates with a barge-pole — no-one would let them even if they wanted to — so they restrict their activities to “enhanc[ing] competitiveness, support[ing] customers and facilitating] innovation”. So that’s nice.

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Those self-appointed keeper of the various flames of the different cottages that make up our industry. Traditionally thought of as bland, sleepy places, they are from time to time cast into the terrible glare of publicity, which generally doesn’t play out too well for them.

Fun fact: the collective noun for a group of industry associations — seldom used, because so rare and disconsolate are the circumstances in which they get together<ref>Such as drafting a standard disclosure notice that stock lenders could send to each other advising themselves that their title transfer arrangements involve the transfer of title — is a torpidity.

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