Thursday, October 12, 2017

ISDA Publishes Venezuela Additional Provisions Protocol


The International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. (ISDA) has announced the launch of the ISDA 2017 Venezuela Additional Provisions Protocol. The Protocol is designed to help market participants that have entered into credit derivatives transactions referencing Venezuela or Petroleos de Venezuela, S.A. (including various emerging market credit default swap index transactions), following the imposition of sanctions on Venezuela by the US. These sanctions make credit default swap (CDS) auctions for restricted Venezuelan debt impractical, prompting ISDA to publish new terms for these transactions that limit the scope of CDS contracts to debt obligations that are not restricted under the terms of the sanctions More…

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