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On 10 July 2007, five trade associations, the European securitisation forum, ICMA, ISDA, LIBA and SIFMA jointly released the non-binding Retail Structured Products: Principles for managing the provider-distributor relationship (a copy is available from SIFMA's website). These broad principles are intended to be for global use "at a high level". new

Derivatives lawyers' pay packages.

Japan Ministry of Finance announced list of swap counterparties

The Tokyo Stock (Stop?) Exchange: “Market Disruption Event”, “Early Closure”, “Exchange Disruption” and “Trading Disruption” under the 2002 ISDA Equity Derivatives Definitions