What’s new in CCP Disclosures? – Q1 2025
Clearing houses have published their latest CPMI-IOSCO Quantitative Disclosures for Q1 2025. Background Under the CPMI-IOSCO Public Quantitative Disclosures, central counterparties (CCPs) publish over 200 quantitative data fields covering margin, default resources, credit risk, collateral, liquidity risk, back-testing, and more. CCPView has more than 8 years of these quarterly disclosures for 44 clearinghouses, each with multiple Clearing Services, covering […]
€STR volumes and market share – May 2025
€STR futures Our €STR Dashboard summarizes key liquidity attributes in this growing market. Chart 1: €STR short-term interest rate futures dashboard. Source: Dashboard built using ClarusFT microservices connected to CCPView. The dashboard shows: In addition, CCPView provides longer-range time series, like the following on €STR futures OI. Chart 2: day-by-day €STR futures OI by CCP (notional […]
How much margin? The 2024 edition
This blog covers the 2024 edition of the “ISDA Year-End Margin Survey”, published on 14 May 2025, which covers over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives uncleared initial margin (IM) and variation margin (VM) for all asset classes, and cleared IM for interest rate derivatives (IRD) and credit derivatives (CRD) only. We combine the ISDA survey data with more […]
Q1 2025 CCP volumes and share in CRD and FXD
This blog reviews the volumes and central counterparty (CCP) market share of cleared credit derivatives (CRD) and FX derivatives (FXD) in Q1 2025. Comparing Q1 2025 with Q1 2024, we see 44 percent overall volume increases in cleared CRD – index, single-name, and swaptions. Comparing Q1 2025 with Q1 2024, we see 31 percent overall volume […]
What’s new in AUD swaps in 2025?
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 […]
Rates IM optimization
Background Several points are listed here for convenience. Feel free to skip to the next section now and refer to them later. According to the ISDA margin survey, uncleared SIMM IM collected exceeded $350 billion at the end of 2024, a large slice of which is incurred by rates derivatives portfolios. Capitolis kindly confirmed that […]
SOFR swap SEF volumes – 2025 to end May
This blog follows the recent pattern of intra-year SOFR swaps SEF volumes blogs to complement the full-year reviews in 2023 and 2024. Given recent market dynamics, I was curious about the activity levels so far in 2025. Please note: SDRView includes MTFs and OTFs as well as SEFs in its platform scope. For brevity, we […]
Swaption volumes by strike – Q1 2025
This post looks at USD swaptions activity in Q1 as part of our regular quarterly coverage, the last of which was Swaption Volumes by Strike Q4 2024. Swaptions basics If you are uninitiated in swaptions, here are some basics: Now, on to the post. Swap market context Q1 2025 saw the following daily price moves […]
Most active names in Credit Derivatives – April 2025
After about a year since our last blog on this topic, it is high time for another look at the most active names in CDS, using data reported to US SEC Securities Based Data Repositories (SBSDRs). CDS on sovereigns Using SBSDRView, we can find the most active sovereign CDS trades in April 2025, starting with USD activity. Table 1 – […]
2024 SEF volumes and share in SOFR swaps
SOFR Swaps at D2D venues were usually spreadover, butterfly, curve switch or CCP switch packages. On D2C venues, spot-starting SOFR swaps were dominated by outright trades. As well as spot-starters, forward, IMM and MAC SOFR swaps also trade in significant numbers on D2C venues (unlike D2D venues). Continue reading for the charts, tables, and details. Background This post iterates, for […]