SEFS in Japan: First Month of ETP Volumes
Following on from our blog, SEFs in Japan: ETP Data, I wanted to look at the first month of trade activity. Background Japanese Electronic Trading Platforms (ETPs) commenced operation on 1 Sep 2015, with trading in Vanilla JPY Fixed vs Libor Swaps, Cleared at JSCC with 5Y, 7Y, 10Y tenors and trades executed between large […]
AUD Cross Currency Swaps
Clarus explores the AUD/USD Cross Currency Swaps market. We find that our SDR data covers over 20% of the market – both for dealer-to-dealer and dealer-to-client flows. SEF-trading has seen an impressive uptake, with an average daily volume over $500m. The off-SEF market remains important – not surprising, given a lack of clearing or execution […]
AUD swap market: Concentration risks from the Clearing Mandate
We present a uniquely Clarus view of the AUD IRS markets Our analysis of the regulatory landscape, bond issuance data and swap market flows suggests that many Swap Dealers will end-up in Add-On territory for OTC swaps clearing at CCPs This means that swaps become incrementally ever more expensive to trade relative to futures From a liquidity point of view, […]
SEFs in Japan: ETP Data
Japan has joined the SEF party with their own flavor of trading venues known as Electronic Trading Platforms (ETP’s). ETP’s launched last week on Tuesday, September 1st. Amir had written about them back in April. Some rules have since been tweaked, and of course we now have some data. Lets have a look at everything. […]
Derivatives Trade Reporting in Australia
Following on from my prior article looking at Canadian Derivatives Reporting to SDRs, I thought I would look next at Australia. The Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC) Derivatives Transaction Reporting requirements began as follows: Phase 1 firms (Swap Dealers) in October 2013 Phase 2 firms in April 2014 and October 2014 Phase 3 firms in April […]
FX NDF Trading On SEFs: April 2015 Update
It is more than a year since I last looked at FX NDF Trading On SEFs (Jan 2014) and as that was one of our Top 10 Blogs of 2014, it is long overdue for me to see What the Data Shows. April 2015 Lets start with SDRView and the latest volumes in the four largest currency […]
SEFs in Japan
The G20 commitment of 2009 that “all standard OTC Derivative contracts should be traded on exchanges or electronic platforms” has so far only been implemented in the United States where Swap Execution Facilities (SEFs) have been live since October 2013. In this article I will look at the situation in Japan. Background First lets start with […]
CDS Clearing Data
A few times last week I heard concerns about whether clearing of Single Name CDS will ever take off. It inspired me to examine the data we have on hand for credit derivatives, both index and Single Name, to see what I can make of it. While we’ve written lots of articles on OTC swaps, […]
AUD Swap Market
Having blogged for a good few months now, it becomes second nature to look for different lines of analysis within the major markets that we haven’t yet covered. As a result, we find new ways of developing the existing products and adding to the layers of data. However, always searching for that something new can lead us […]
OTC Derivatives Reporting in Japan
Earlier this year I looked into European derivatives trade reporting (see EMIR Trade Reporting) and as not much of note has improved in the public dissemination of aggregate data in Europe, I thought I would look at Asia, starting with the largest market; Japan. While the Japanese FSA (JFSA) requires mandatory derivatives reporting to an […]