Primers and notes
Educational series, primers, and articles from the practice.
Every firm keeps its own copy of the same trade, and everyone pays to reconcile the differences. The ISDA Common Domain Model is the industry's shared, machine-readable definition of trades, products, and lifecycle events: one shape for the data, agreed once and used by everyone. This primer builds it up from first principles and assumes no prior CDM knowledge.
CDM Foundations · Payouts · The Trade Lifecycle · Trade Reporting