The Clarus blog covered Active Accounts back in December, and followed up with probably the first podcast in the world to cover Active Accounts: The European Parliament have followed this with an announcement this month that: The European Commission then provided the following details: For those of us who thrive on the details this looks […]

Almost exactly a year ago, the EU proposed requiring market participants subject to a clearing obligation to clear a portion of the products that have been identified by ESMA as of substantial systemic importance through active accounts at EU CCPs.
The unknown in the past 12 months has been how the EU will define the “Active Account Requirement (AAR)”. In the past few days […]

It all started with a blog titled “Moving Euro Clearing out of the UK: the $77bn problem?“. Now, ISDA and other trade associations have published a statement on the “active account” requirement for Europeans: Which says; In case any of this is new to our readers, Brexit has resulted in a (political) desire in Europe […]

Eurex EUR share stands at 7-9% when measured by DV01. Globally, August 2021 saw the lowest EUR IRS volumes in the past 5 years. 23% of EUR IRS executes on-SEF. 60% of EUR CRD Index volumes now execute on-SEF. And we look at where clearing of EUR CRD Index trades is taking place. Now that […]

Did you know that volumes in CZK interest rate derivatives have increased ten-fold in the past five years? CZK is now the largest Rates market amongst CE3 currencies. In the same time-period, HUF cleared markets have actually shrunk. PLN markets have grown by about 50%. Did the expiry of the Exchange Rate Commitment in CZK […]

Brexit has now moved…. $1.3Trn of EUR and GBP IRS $169bn of EUR ITraxx and $46Trn of SPS and FRAs …onto US-based SEF venues. Barely a day has passed in 2021 without Clarus receiving an enquiry about Brexit. Our data looking at both where trades are executed and where trades are cleared has been in […]

In April I covered Securities Finance Transaction Reporting (SFTR) and ended that article by stating that I would check back end July for the first set of public reports from Trade Repositories. As there are four authorized Trade Repositories (DTCC, Regis-TR, UnaVista and KDPW), I had expected to look for the weekly data files published […]

I’m sure that I am not the only one sat here wondering how the switch from EONIA to €STR discounting went at the CCPs over the weekend? As far as I understand it, the change in valuation (cash compensation) amounts should have settled on Monday (July 27th) morning. Will this switch lead to activity in […]

For some time now I have been noting, but not reading, articles about the Securities Financing Transactions Regulation (SFTR) being implemented in Europe, so today I wanted to take my first look into this regulation. Background The ESMA website has a good section on SFTR Reporting, so I will copy & paste liberally from that, […]