What did the Australian Regulators say about OTC Derivatives Trading Mandates?
I read last month with interest the report on the Australian OTC Derivatives Market issued by the Council of Financial Regulators (which includes Australian regulators APRA, ASIC, RBA and The Treasury). The full report of which can be found here. Given we already know a lot about the Trade Reporting and Central Clearing developments, I […]
Australian Rates Clearing Mandate
Australian Rates Clearing Mandate now only 6 months away. LCH is the current king of AUD$ Rates Clearing ASX goes strong on the Cleared AUD$ OIS product Regulators may delay mandate start on FRAs and OIS? Will a market share split see a CCP basis spread like for USD on LCH-CME? I thought might be […]
Why trade level reporting is the only reporting that makes sense
We look at the data sources available for AUD IRS markets…. …and try to reconcile some of the numbers We quickly find this is not as easy as it first appears…. …and conclude that publicly disseminated, trade-level reporting is the only way to add true transparency to OTC derivative markets. The great data reconciliation game […]
SEFS in Japan: First Month of ETP Volumes
Following on from our blog, SEFs in Japan: ETP Data, I wanted to look at the first month of trade activity. Background Japanese Electronic Trading Platforms (ETPs) commenced operation on 1 Sep 2015, with trading in Vanilla JPY Fixed vs Libor Swaps, Cleared at JSCC with 5Y, 7Y, 10Y tenors and trades executed between large […]
AUD Cross Currency Swaps
Clarus explores the AUD/USD Cross Currency Swaps market. We find that our SDR data covers over 20% of the market – both for dealer-to-dealer and dealer-to-client flows. SEF-trading has seen an impressive uptake, with an average daily volume over $500m. The off-SEF market remains important – not surprising, given a lack of clearing or execution […]
AUD swap market: Concentration risks from the Clearing Mandate
We present a uniquely Clarus view of the AUD IRS markets Our analysis of the regulatory landscape, bond issuance data and swap market flows suggests that many Swap Dealers will end-up in Add-On territory for OTC swaps clearing at CCPs This means that swaps become incrementally ever more expensive to trade relative to futures From a liquidity point of view, […]
SEFs in Japan: ETP Data
Japan has joined the SEF party with their own flavor of trading venues known as Electronic Trading Platforms (ETP’s). ETP’s launched last week on Tuesday, September 1st. Amir had written about them back in April. Some rules have since been tweaked, and of course we now have some data. Lets have a look at everything. […]
Derivatives Trade Reporting in Australia
Following on from my prior article looking at Canadian Derivatives Reporting to SDRs, I thought I would look next at Australia. The Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC) Derivatives Transaction Reporting requirements began as follows: Phase 1 firms (Swap Dealers) in October 2013 Phase 2 firms in April 2014 and October 2014 Phase 3 firms in April […]
FX NDF Trading On SEFs: April 2015 Update
It is more than a year since I last looked at FX NDF Trading On SEFs (Jan 2014) and as that was one of our Top 10 Blogs of 2014, it is long overdue for me to see What the Data Shows. April 2015 Lets start with SDRView and the latest volumes in the four largest currency […]
SEFs in Japan
The G20 commitment of 2009 that “all standard OTC Derivative contracts should be traded on exchanges or electronic platforms” has so far only been implemented in the United States where Swap Execution Facilities (SEFs) have been live since October 2013. In this article I will look at the situation in Japan. Background First lets start with […]