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The 2022 ISDA Securities Financing Transaction Definitions

On 28 February 2022 ISDA published version 1 of its ‘2022 ISDA Securities Financing Transaction Definitions’ (the ‘SFT Definitions’). The purpose of the SFT Definitions is to enable parties to an ISDA Master Agreement to enter into ‘SFT Transactions’.

The main benefit of entering into an SFT Transaction under an ISDA Master Agreement (as opposed to, say, a GMRA or a GMSLA) is that both the derivatives transactions AND the SFT Transactions can be combined together in one netting set for the purposes of close-out – thus reducing credit risk. 

Parties wishing to enter into SFT Transactions can incorporate the SFT Definitions into their contractual relationship by amending the Schedule to their underlying ISDA Master Agreement to incorporate a new ‘part [x]’. ISDA provides the pro-forma ‘part [x]’ within its 2022 ISDA Securities Financing Transactions Schedule Provisions (the ‘SFT Provisions’), which was also published on 28 February 2022.

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