2024 volumes and market share for OTC Derivatives in Interest Rates reported by Clearing Houses. Clarus CCPView has daily volume and open interest data published by each CCP, which is filtered, normalised and aggregated to allow meaningful comparisons. Contents: Onto the charts, data, and details. Volumes and Market Share For major currencies and regions, vanilla swaps referencing IBORs and OIS […]

CME are taking a bold step into the (relatively) unknown and launching EUR/USD Cross-Currency Basis futures. Let’s take a look… Definition The Cross-Currency Basis Future can be defined as; A contract for difference that cash-settles the implied 3 month cross-currency basis from observable EUR/USD FX-forward, USD and EUR short-term interest rate futures. Recall that a […]

27th January marked the deadline for the latest ESMA consultation on the European Active Account Requirement. Risk.net wrote a good summary of the requirements back in November when the consultation was first published: What has been proposed? The Active Account Requirement for OTC derivatives means the following trades must occur at a CCP located inside […]

Clearinghouses have published their latest CPMI-IOSCO Quantitative Disclosures: Background Under the CPMI-IOSCO Public Quantitative Disclosures, central (clearing) counterparties CCPs publish over 200 quantitative data fields covering margin, default resources, credit risk, collateral, liquidity risk, back-testing, and more. CCPView has over 8 years of these quarterly disclosures for 44 clearinghouses, each with multiple Clearing Services, covering the period from 30 September […]