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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]]. Publisher of the {{gmsla}}, {{pgmsla}} and the American {{msla}} — but for how much longer after ISDA’s recent land-grab or should I say [[the convergence song|white-paper proposing closer collaboration and standardisation between derivatives and SFT markets]]?
*'''[[ISLA]]''': [[International Securities Lending Association]]. Publisher of the {{gmsla}}, {{pgmsla}} and the American {{msla}} — but for how much longer after ISDA’s recent land-grab or should I say ''[[the convergence song|white-paper proposing closer collaboration and standardisation between derivatives and SFT markets]]''?
*'''[[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.

Revision as of 16:53, 13 October 2020

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Those self-appointed keepers of the flames in the hearths 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.

The Joint Chiefs of Staff

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 — is a “torpidity”. The most famous torpidity of all is the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the Industry Associations, an august body comprising personnel from usually-sworn-enemy organisations like ISDA, ICMA, ISLA and FIA, who convened for a beautiful moment of no-mans-land-Christmas-football in 2015 to formulate the Article 15 SFTR disclosure document, a fifteen-page, 5,000 word exercise in stating the bleeding obvious.[1]

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  1. Namely, that title transfer arrangements are arrangements involving the transfer of title.