GBP Swaps – What’s New?
It’s time to take a look at UK swap markets. I tend to do this about once a year, and the last time was June 2023: Again, I will reference FT Alphaville for their great coverage of the UK and in particular highlighting the potential for stability in one of their recent posts: A good […]
Allocation Workflow in Futures and Options
At Industry Events focusing on Futures and Options, you often hear about trade allocation workflow and efforts to improve this important post-trade process. Not knowing much about this topic, I recently read a very interesting article, “The evolution of F&O clearing workflows: Let’s talk allocation!” on the ION Markets Blog. Well worth a read.
€STR Volumes and Market Share June 2024
€STR Futures Our €STR Dashboard summarises key liquidity attributes in this growing market: Showing; Open Interest CCPView provides all the data we need on Open Interest for €STR futures: EURIBOR EURIBOR continues to dominate EUR STIR future volumes: Showing; CME €STR Watch The CME have added €STR to their monetary policy tracking tools, which is […]
2Q24 CCP Volumes and Share in IRD
Clarus CCPView has daily volume and open interest data published by each CCP, which is filtered, normalised and aggregated to allow meaningful comparisons of volumes. Today we look at 2Q24 volume and market share in IRD for: Which show record high quarterly volumes for GBP, JPY, EMEA, AsiaPac and LatAm Swaps. Onto the charts, data and details. Volumes and Market Share For […]
RFR Adoption Q2 2024
Time for a quarterly check-in on RFR trading. The data provides a high-level overview of trading activity across all Rates products. Clarus API – CCPView As a reminder from the previous blog, Clarus microservices allow me to query numerous volume measures from CCPView. That means I have rebuilt the RFR Adoption Indicator using just two queries to […]
Swaption Volumes by Strike Q2 2024
This blog follows on from the interesting activity we have seen across Options markets so far this year. Take a look if you have missed anything: I have written previous Swaption reviews after large, directional moves in Rates. Q2 2024 was a little bit different, although it would still be characterised as a “volatile” quarter. […]