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ISDA added a Japanese jurisdictional module to its Resolution Stay Jurisdictional Modular Protocol. The new module is intended to facilitate compliance with Japanese regulations that require contractual stays to be included in certain financial contracts that are not governed by Japanese law.

The MFA warned that a Federal Reserve Board proposal to restrict the qualified financial contracts of systemically important U.S. banking organizations could "harm the stability of the financial markets while also eroding long-standing and deeply rooted rights of investors, end users and other market participants."

ISDA published the 2015 ISDA Universal Resolution Stay Protocol (the "2015 ISDA Protocol") which "enables parties to amend the terms of their Protocol Covered Agreements to contractually recognize the cross-border application of special resolution regimes applicable to certain financial companies and support the resolution of certain financial companies under the United States Bankruptcy Code." In addition, SIFMA, the International Capital Market Association ("ICMA") and the International Securities Lending Association ("ISLA"), in coordination with ISDA and the Financial Stability Board