SIMM for Excel performs ISDA SIMM™ Initial Margin calculations from Excel. Free 14-day trials are available for all financial firms. Reconcile ISDA SIMM calculations. Perform pre-trade analysis of your bilateral trades quickly, simply, reliably. The functions calculate Initial Margin across a whole portfolio. Users can also create CRIF sensitivities from trade-level details. Functions That Won’t Kill Excel Our […]

Continuing with our monthly Swaps review series, let’s look at volumes in June 2017. Summary: SDR USD IRS price-forming volume > $2.1 trillion gross notional, similar to a year earlier SEF Compression activity in USD IRS > $300 billion, 51% higher than a year earlier On SEF IMM Roll volume > $60 billion USD OIS price-forming volume was > $2.7 trillion, again […]

ESMA have published Transitional Transparency Calculations for a number of asset classes. These calculations define which asset classes and instruments are deemed liquid for the purposes of making trade data public as of 3rd January 2018. Anything deemed “illiquid” will likely have a two-day lag applied to the trade record being made publicly available. The transitional […]

There have been a couple noteworthy advances in SEF’s in July.  The NEX SEF has launched, and LedgerX has been approved.  Let’s have a look at these. BLOCKCHAIN We’ll start with the bitcoin venture LedgerX, who applied for SEF registration in January 2017 and was approved on July 6.  They put out some press in […]