IFSCA notifies Qualified Financial Contracts under the Bilateral Netting of Qualified Financial Contracts Act, 2020
IFSCA has notified a wide and inclusive definition of “qualified financial contract”. Moreover, since many of the OTC derivatives contracts and other financial transactions are entered into on the basis of standard documentation like International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) master agreement, such agreements too have been included in the definition of the term “qualified financial contract”. The term “qualified financial market participant”, as defined in the Act, already includes all financial institutions established at IFSCs and therefore has not been separately defined in the notification.