ISDA/IA Collateral Management Evolution: Opportunities in Operational Efficiency and Liquidity Management

Collateral management has received increasing scrutiny in recent times in the UK and more broadly. Firms are increasingly looking at collateral efficiency as funding becomes more costly and at risk management given recent events causing increased volatility. Concurrently, collateral management has been earmarked as one of the potential early use cases for Distributed Ledger Technology in the capital markets industry.  

The Investment Association (IA) and International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) are holding an event to explore some of these facets in more detail, including discussions on:

• Managing collateral liquidity, stress testing and clearing member default contingency planning.
• The future of collateral, exploring collateral diversification and posting tokenised assets as margin.
• Operational efficiencies and the impact of T+1, along with a discussion of operational resilience. 
• A horizon scan of regulatory update impacts. 
• Tech solution interoperability. 

Given the diverse membership(s) of the IA and ISDA, we will address these topics with a view from firms across the investor chain and explore how these evolving industry solutions could benefit the end investor.

Contact: Rob Saunders
email: RSaunders@isda.org | telephone: +44 (0) 20 3808 9727

Contact: Ryan White
email: ryan.white@theia.org | telephone: +44 07958 427 170