Today we look at issuer names most actively traded based on CDS trades reported to US SEC Securities Based Swap Data Repositories (SBSDRs) in September 2025. Background The prior similar blog covered credit derivatives (CRD) for July 2025. Given the CDS-market peaks naturally in March and September, we will focus on those months going forward. […]

Today, we look at trading platforms’ September 2025 market shares of volumes of OTC interest rate derivatives (IRD). If you prefer, you can skip to the end for a summary of market share statistics before returning to the start to read the details. Volume context for platform market shares Throughout this blog, we look at the volumes and platform shares of SDR-reported rates OTC trades over the 15-month period from 01 July 2024 to 30 September 2025. […]

This post looks at USD swaptions activity in Q3 as part of our regular quarterly coverage, the most recent of which was Swaption Volumes by Strike – Q2 2024. We use SDRView data, which shows all trades reported by US financial firms to US SDRs. If you are new to swaptions, some basics are outlined […]

Our recent blog noted that FRA compressions were $18.8 trillion of the total $97.4 trillion SDR-reported in H1 2025. The $18.8 trillion FRA compressions were dominated by the EUR currency and by the OSTTRA REST platform. I skipped further analysis to tee up a separate analysis in this blog.  Key takeaways Background Multilateral reset optimization […]

Following our introductory blog, 2024 US SDR-Reported IR Compression, published in May 2025, we  review today the same compression volumes for the first half of (H1) 2025. Key takeaways Background Note that SDRView is roughly half the total swaption compression volume, because trades are only reported to SDRs if they involve a US party. Nonetheless, […]

Today we look at issuer names most actively traded in trades reported to US SEC Securities Based Swap Data Repositories (SBSDRs) in July 2025. The prior similar blog covered April 2025. Today’s iteration also includes a brief review of overall single-name CDS volumes. CDS on sovereigns We start with USD CDS on sovereign names. Table […]

This post looks at USD swaptions activity in Q2 as part of our regular quarterly coverage, the most recent of which was Swaption Volumes by Strike – Q1 2024. We use SDRView data, which shows all trades reported by US financial firms to US SDRs. If you are new to swaptions, some basics are outlined […]

This blog looks at another year of AUD swaps activity, continuing from the blog with a similar title published at about the same time last year.  Should you want more information on AUD swaps, the blog linked above contains links to several other blogs on the topic. AUD market total size First, we extend the […]