We have had a number of people reach out and ask when the RFR Adoption Indicator will next be updated. It is a great vindication of all of the hard work that has gone on over the past 4 years (and even longer when you consider the wider work on LIBOR cessation, Fallbacks and Benchmark […]
Very occasionally, the data writes a blog for me. This is one of those times, with three particular highlights: €STR Futures I have slightly tweaked our €STR Dashboard, which summarises key liquidity attributes in this growing market: Showing; The really large volume days at Eurex have not materially added to the Open Interest yet, where-as […]
The SEC final rule on clearing of US Treasury Securities was published on March 18, 2024. Now that the scope and timelines are known, the challenges in implementation are becoming apparent. We cover the details on the ION Markets Blog.
Credit Support Annexes used to be the dullest of the dull. A “back-office”, operational necessity that helped reduce counterparty exposures. Now, they are intrinsic to the functioning of modern day derivatives markets and have blossomed in both number and potential complexity as a result of the Uncleared Margin Rules. If you don’t have a CSA, […]
Clearing Houses have published their latest CPMI-IOSCO Quantitative Disclosures: Background Under the CPMI-IOSCO Public Quantitative Disclosures, CCPs publish over two hundred 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 Clearing Houses, each with multiple Clearing Services, covering the period from 30 Sep […]
Issuance A particular headline in the FT recently piqued the interest of this blogger: Like a moth to a flame, I was drawn to the statement: The demand has helped push a number of continental European companies to issue sterling debt for the first time in recent months, including German real estate company Vonovia, German […]
