Swaps Data: Clearing’s $750 billion funding requirement
My monthly Swaps Review in Risk Magazine looks at the most recent CPMI-IOSCO CCP Quantitative Disclosures for the majority of CCPs to show that: Initial Margin required is > $500 billion The breakdown by CCP of this figure How IM is held, Gov Bonds, Cash, Other Variation Margin, daily average > $10 billion Default Resources […]
Overview of the Hong Kong Trade Repository
Hong Kong started interim trade reporting in August 2013, with Legislative vetted rules implemented on 10 July 2015. Unlike other jurisdictions in Asia, HKMA built the trade reporting solution themselves. The Hong Kong Trade Repository (HKTR) was built by their subsidiary Hong Kong Interbank Clearing Limited (HKICL). HKICL also built/manages Hong Kong’s payment infrastructure on […]
MIFID II Data – Bond Trading
We analyse sovereign bond trading volumes from Bloomberg and Tradeweb APAs and MTFs. Tradeweb APA sees the largest volume of trades. MTF market shares are roughly 50/50 between these two D2C platforms. 67% of German Bund volumes were executed on-venue. Only 18% of French OAT volumes were executed on-venue. Bond Trading by Venue Armed with […]
Final 2017 FCM Rankings & Concentration
The latest batch of FCM data has been assembled. Lets dig in. We start with the number of FCMs that are registered, by various metrics: Showing us: The number of FCMs registered dropped by 1 firm, from 64 to 63, with the removal of ETRADE Securities (leaving just ETRADE Futures) The number of FCM’s with […]
MAS plays catch up with proposed trading obligation mandate
MAS is playing catch up and proposing to mandate trading of USD, GBP and EUR fixed float swap trades in organised markets, aligning themselves with the EU and US regulators. The proposed tenors covered are the most liquid (under 10Ys) on the respective currencies curve. However no JPY, AUD or SGD trading mandate yet. Proposed […]
All time record volumes in Cross Currency Swaps
January 2018 saw all time notional volume records in Cross Currency Swaps. Some of this volume was in short-dated USDJPY products. BGC captured a large portion of the uptick in volumes, seeing a 40% market share for on-SEF products. We need to be able to see European volumes to improve our understanding of this important […]
MiFID II – NEX APA Public Trade Data
NEX Regulatory Reporting operates a MiFID II APA and it is great that their public website now supports a Market Identifier Code (MIC) level search for post-trade data, which is then easily exportable into a csv file. Brilliant. Lets take a look at the data available. NEX APA The public website is here and selecting Trades shows […]
Swaps Data: the monopoly effect in clearing
My Monthly Swaps Data Review for Risk Magazine was published this week. This looks at 2017 CCP Volumes for: Interest Rate Swaps, in major and minor currencies Credit Derivatives, index and single-name Non-Deliverable Forwards It shows the dominance of one global CCP in each asset class and significant share by other CCPs in a specific […]
Clarus Daily Briefing
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Entity Netted Notionals – Turning $179 trillion into $15 trillion
The Office of the Chief Economist at the CFTC, recently published the research paper “Introducing ENNs: A Measure of the Size of Interest Rate Swap Markets“, which I found very interesting. This paper argues that gross notional , a common measure of the size of swap markets, does not accurately represent the amount of risk […]