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 ..read more

Following on from the first article on Target Redemption Forwards (see Handling the complexities), my colleagues Serena Manti and Gianluca Molteni have written an interesting article on pricing using the Dupire local volatility model as the path dependent features of these products means that the standard Balck Scholes model with it constatnt volatility assumption is ..read more

USD Outright Volumes The chart below shows monthly volumes since Sep 2021: Showing; And we shouldn’t avoid the chance to present another impressive chart. Average Daily Volumes in USD Rates keep on increasing each quarter: Will September 2024 be busy enough for us to close the quarter with another record? Stay tuned to the Clarus ..read more

June 2024 saw the largest number of EUR Swaptions reported to SDRs in the past three years: Showing; My interest in EUR Swaptions was sparked by a recent Risk.net article; I’m not sure our data shows much support for the idea that it was straddles specifically that led to a spike in volumes. Further complicating ..read more

Hedge funds are frequently in the financial news, which is not at all surprising given the size of the sector and the public profile and wealth of the founders. So it is good to see that a Hedge Fund Monitor has been released by the Office of Financial Research of the U.S. Department of the ..read more

Target Redemption Fowards (TARFs) are complex OTC financial instruments used in FX markets. An instrument type that many of us will have heard about in passing, but not had the need or time to delve into the details. My colleagues, Serena Manti and Gianluca Molteni have written the first of a series of articles on ..read more

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 ..read more

€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 ..read more

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 ..read more

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 ..read more