MXN Swaps – What’s New?
I have not written about MXN Swaps since January 2020 – nearly five years! This blog couldn’t come at a more opportune time, with the MXN market undergoing a big change this week. CME Conversion Why the sudden interest in MXN after five years? It is those pesky Risk Free Rates (RFRs) again. MXN was […]
Swaption Volumes by Strike Q3 2024
This blog covers USD Options markets in Q3 – so please note that is before the election result! This is the latest in a series of blogs covering Swaptions: Q3 2024 was a characterised by huge volumes in underlying Swaps, with notable activity in August. There was also a lot of activity tied to changes […]
We Have New Block Sizes
Block Calibration It has been a long journey to finally arrive at the “go-live” for new block thresholds on October 4th 2024. I covered it here on the blog, so rather than re-hash what has happened, please refer to the old posts linked below: Suffice to say that there have been more than a few […]
US Election Live – What is Trading?
Final Post Below you will see our updates throughout the day. As you can see, the action ended up a touch “samey” – there wasn’t the volatility that we saw back in 2016. However, we ended the day with 5,200 trades. That beat August 5th (which I think was the previous SDR record) by a […]