The board of the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) has elected Eric Litvack as its new chairman, effective Jan. 1, 2015. Litvack, a member of the ISDA board since 2006, was appointed to the board’s vice-chairmanship in 2012. He is a managing director and head of regulatory strategy for Société Générale’s global banking and… Read More >>
O’Malia Sets the Agenda for ISDA
Scott O’Malia, the relatively new CEO for the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA), has been on the job for “some five weeks,” and he has been busy. FTF News readers will remember that O’Malia was until recently a rather vocal and active CFTC commissioner who among other accomplishments brought attention to many of the… Read More >>
O’Malia Leaving CFTC to Run ISDA
Scott D. O’Malia, the soon-to-be former CFTC commissioner who sometimes reluctantly ushered in derivatives reform, will become CEO of the leading private industry overseer for over-the-counter derivative transactions, the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA), effective August 18, say ISDA officials. The appointment comes just two days after O’Malia announced in a letter to President… Read More >>
CFTC’s Scott O’Malia to Resign
CFTC Commissioner Scott D. O’Malia announced yesterday that he will be resigning next month “to pursue other opportunities,” only seven weeks after the Obama administration via Senate approval appointed two new commissioners and a new chairman. In his July 21 resignation letter to President Obama, O’Malia, a 2009 Republican appointee serving a term not set… Read More >>
