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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. The {{gmsla}} and its American cousin the {{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. | ||
Fun fact: the collective noun for a group of [[industry | Fun fact: the collective noun for a group of [[industry association]]s — 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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*[[Collective noun]]s | *[[Collective noun]]s | ||