1205: initialAmount – documentaion and example contradiction.

7.4.1 Credit default swap documentation states that initialPayment is intended for use solely with CDS index trades. Document”Trades on credit default swap indices generally have an upfront payment associated with them. Unlike upfront payments on credit default swap trades, the initial payment can be from either protection buyer to protection seller or from protection seller … Continued

1203: PackageType

Hi I am wondering is it possible for a trade to has more then one packageType ? (maxOccurs=”unbonded”) fpml-business-events-5-7.xsd Thanks for explanation, Marek Thanks, Marek

1202: Missing EventType Code Scheme

eventType which contains enumerated values with the default scheme as .. http://www.fpml.org/coding-scheme/event-type has no corresponding codes defined. It’s missing in this latest FpML Coding Schemes 30 June 2014 Version: 1.56 as well: http://www.fpml.org/spec/coding-scheme/index.html I see this issue was first reported in ticket 0001173. Can this be resolved ASAP as this information is needed for an … Continued

1201: Party and Party Group model

I’ve just noticed in a diff of 5-6 and 5-7-4 that the Party complex type has changed to allow joint and several party references instead of party content. 1. Where is the documentation on the change, and the proposal for it ? 2. What are the use cases for it ? 3. What alternate models … Continued

1200: ird-ex32-zero-coupon-swap.xml is wrong

There are two problems with this example 1. In the fixed leg the calculationPeriodFrequency/rollConvention has been set to NONE. To be consistent with the effective and termination dates (and the floating leg) it should be ’22’. 2. The fixed leg as been defined as 3% calculated annually for 30 years but this means there is … Continued

1199: Table of Contents – renumber

Documentation pages like “fpml-5-7-intro.html” have a table of contents where the numbering and linking of the table of contents is out of sync, starting at 6 CROSS-ASSET PRODUCT ARCHITECTURE, which should like to #s5.

1198: Net vs Gross

I think the documentation for net and gross is backwards. Surely net excludes, and gross includes fees & commissions.

1196: Reference Rules in the Reporting view

.. taken from the text of e-mail send to ISDA … “I am looking at the changes documents for ALL the versions in 5.6. In the first of these it states, under the rules-english-ref.xml section (i.e. the Reference rules) “enabled ref-14 to 21, ref 31, ref36-37 in reporting view”. None of the subsequent changes docs … Continued