Microservices: Swap equivalents in Julia
Julia is a modern high-level, high-performance language for numerical computing. Clarus API functions are easily accessed in Julia. What is Julia? Julia is a relatively new computing language, combining the ease of development (similar to python and matlab) with a Just-In-Time compiler and other language features to deliver runtime performance close to that of C. […]
EU Commission proposes more robust supervision of CCPs
There has been much recent coverage in the press about whether the EU would require a location requirement for EUR Swaps Clearing. (See City AM, Reuters, Risk.Net). Today the EU Commission put out a press release proposing more robust supervision of CCPs. What have they said pertinent to the debate about Brexit and LCH Clearnet Ltd? Lets extract […]
May 2017 Swaps Review
Continuing with our monthly Swaps review series, let’s look at volumes in May 2017 and in a change from the usual format of SDR data, then SEF market share and then CCP volumes, I will take a product centric view. Summary USD IRS Global Cleared volume in May was $4.6 trillion (up from $3.6 trillion in April) US On SEF volume […]
Clearing Mandates 2017
Which jurisdictions currently have Clearing Mandates in place for Interest Rate Derivatives? There are lots of articles and sources of information about upcoming mandates… …but finding what is already in force is more difficult. We therefore take this opportunity to summarise the Clearing Mandates that are now active across multiple jurisdictions. Sources Before we look […]
Supplementary Leverage Ratio: Comparing US Banks
In my recent Basel III Leverage Ratio article I provided an introduction to this important new metric and today I will look at the Supplementary Leverage Ratio (SLR) disclosures published by the six largest US banks. Background An underlying cause of the global financial crisis was the build-up of excessive on- and off-balance sheet leverage in banks which apparently still […]
BREXIT: Moving Euro clearing conflicts with G20 Market Reforms
Moving clearing of EUR-denominated contracts to the Eurozone is a complicated proposition. Bifurcating cleared portfolios will make bilateral markets more attractive than cleared markets. This raises questions over existing clearing mandates. It also conflicts with the G20 OTC market reforms intended to reduce systemic risk through the promotion of clearing. Enforcing a location policy for a […]
FCM Rankings & Concentration: Q1 2017
Clearing broker data is out for Q1 2017, so I wanted to run the numbers and see if anything has changed. Lets start with a view onto the number of registered FCMs. This shows 64 firms registered (down 1 from Q4 2016), and 55 firms with any Client Requirements (down 2). On the bright side, there […]
Swaps Data Review: ADV for OTC Derivatives
My Monthly Swaps Data Review for Risk Magazine was published today. This shows that Average Daily Volume (ADV), a widely used metric for Futures and Options contracts, can now be calculated at a the same granular level for OTC Derivatives. So just as CME Group publishes the ADV for the 10Y Treasury Note, it is […]
CAD Swaps – What Does the Data Show?
Amir took a look at CAD swaps when we first added the new Canadian DTCC data source at the beginning of this year. Now that we have more data and reporting has bedded down a bit, I thought it worthwhile to analyse the data to see if two sources are better than one. Canadian reporting […]
Microservices for Derivatives: What You Need to Know
It has been some months since I wrote about Microservices and the Amazon Cloud and as we have recently released a major new version, I wanted to elaborate further on the importance of this technology. Background Microservices are fine-grained services that can be used to rapidly assemble a more complex service, a system, or a user interface. Unlike libraries […]