ESG Futures – S&P 500 and STOXX 600
In my recent article, ESG Investments – A first look at the detail, I noted that two of the major Equity Index Futures contracts, CME S&P 500 and Eurex STOXX 600 have ESG screened variants. In today’s article I look at the volume and open interest of these contracts. CME S&P 500 ESG Starting with […]
What’s New in USD Rates?
USD Rates volumes have returned to the levels we saw in March 2020. We look at whether these volumes are being driven by US Treasuries, bond futures or OTC swaps. Clarus provides volume data by tenor for all of these asset classes under a single data subscription. CCPView provides granular data on traded volumes across […]
SONIA is now the Benchmark Rate in GBP Markets
February 2021 saw 10.6% of all derivatives risk traded versus an RFR. This has now been stable around 10% for some time. We cover the pre-cessation announcements concerning LIBOR and the historic spread calibration that took place last week. There has also been a sharp move higher in the amount of long-dated SONIA risk being […]
Climate Risk Disclosures of major UK Banks
Following on from the first ESG blog on the Clarus website, see ESG Investments, our second ESG blog takes a look at the Climate Risk Disclosures of major UK Banks. Combining many factors into a single score or rating, which can then be optimized is a common approach in Finance. While we do not want […]
Monitoring your own RFR Adoption Indicators
Last summer I wrote Calculate Your Own RFR Adoption Indicators to explain why it was important on IBOR Transition projects to benchmark and monitor your own firms adoption rate versus the market. In a nutshell, your project needs to know if your firm is lagging, leading or in the middle of the pack and respond […]
Here is what is happening to derivatives market liquidity right now
The price of liquidity in USD swaps has risen in 2021 relative to 2020 when measured by Price Dispersion. However, USD Swap markets saw huge volumes traded during February 2021, showing that liquidity has still been available. Our analysis shows that the price of liquidity has increased as volatility increased. Everyone is talking about the […]
SOFR Futures and Swaps – Feb 2021
February 2021 was an interesting month in interest rate markets with the volatility in US Treasuries showing up in many products. Today I look at what happened to volumes in derivatives referencing SOFR. Volume and Open Interest in SOFR Futures Volume and OI in SOFR Swaps SOFR Swaps at US SDRs SOFR Swaps on SEFs Clarus Data provides […]
What is happening now with negative rates in the UK?
Over £673bn in SONIA OIS swaps have traded at negative rates in 2021. Expectations for negative rates have been severely reduced since the last MPC meeting. This year, swaps as long as 4 years have recorded negative rates. We look at what has traded and current timing expectations. In May of last year, I wrote […]
ESG Investments – A first look at the detail
We have all seen ESG, as in Environmental, Social and Governance, bandied around as a new(ish) buzz word in Finance, so today I wanted to take our first dive into this topic. Background We can define ESG as a set of non-financial factors that are used as criteria to compare a companies impact on the […]
SOFR Swaptions and CapsFloors are now trading regularly
We cover SOFR Swaps and other RFRs on a regular basis, so I thought today it would be interesting to see if Swaptions and CapsFloors that reference SOFR are trading. Swaptions Using SDRView, we can search for Swaptions in USD and categorize by reference index. Libor trade counts are in the range 350 to 1,700 […]