Today we look at issuer names most actively traded in trades reported to US SEC Securities Based Swap Data Repositories (SBSDRs) in July 2025. The prior similar blog covered April 2025. Today’s iteration also includes a brief review of overall single-name CDS volumes. CDS on sovereigns We start with USD CDS on sovereign names. Table […]

Today, we look at the GBP rates derivatives markets, which we do about once a year. The last time was a blog in July 2024. Summary Cleared GBP derivatives market size and share The total DV01 traded in cleared GBP cleared rates derivatives (swaps and futures) has broken recent records, as CCPView shows. Chart 1: […]

This blog reviews central counterparty (CCP) volumes and market share for cleared credit derivatives (CRD) and FX derivatives (FXD) in Q2 2025. For all-currency CRD, comparing Q2 2025 with Q2 2024, we see 45 percent volume increases, with indexes up 46 percent, single-names up 11 percent, and swaptions up 152 percent. Analyzing by currency shows that: […]

I wanted to do a long-overdue follow-up on a blog I wrote in 2019, ISDA SIMM FX Optimization and NDFs. That blog outlined the growth of G10 NDFs in response to the initial phases of UMR go-live from 2016 onwards, hypothesizing that multilateral FX IM optimization was driving the trend. (Note that another term was […]