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Isda calls for trade automation

London -- The International Swaps and Derivatives Association (Isda) released a consultative paper in early December 2003 calling for the trade automation of major derivatives product classes by June 2005. The project is designed to help firms reduce operational risks by facilitating straight- through processing, bilateral settlement reconciliation, and collateral matching within agreed timeframes.

The plan calls for the electronic matching and legal execution of all vanilla over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives trades that are inter-dealer transactions on the trade date, with reasonable exceptions due to time zones. For other transactions, the goals are same-day trade verification, and trade confirmation within five days of the trade date, and legal execution within 10 days for complex manual

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