(FT Alphaville came up with the “apocolypse/swapscalypse” first. I am not that clever). Hello Swap Spreads As the link to Alphaville shows, the market narrative is adding USD swap spreads to the “people are worried about the basis trade” theme. Whilst there is potentially more notional tied to the basis between cash USTs and CME-traded […]

Where do KRW Swaps Rank on the Global Picture? CCPView allows us to compare the relative size of KRW swap markets to other currencies. Taking out the “G6” – USD, EUR, GBP, AUD, CAD and JPY – we see the below: Showing; Are All Volumes Cleared at LCH SwapClear? Our CCPView data shows that almost all […]

Today is meant to be Trump’s so-called “Liberation Day” with tariffs potentially being activated with some of the largest trading partners of the US. It is surely no coincidence that it is happening on April Fool’s Day. Just for the sake of it, I wondered what a “Liberation Index” might look like. What are the […]

USD OIS Trading The chart below shows the entire global USD OIS cleared swaps market in 2024: The chart shows the amount of DV01 traded in benchmark maturity buckets – ranging from 2Y to 50Y – in USD OIS versus both SOFR and Fed Funds. The data is from CCPView. This data is reported directly […]