What is the latest European plan to onshore rates trading?

Almost exactly a year ago, the EU proposed requiring market participants subject to a clearing obligation to clear a portion of the products that have been identified by ESMA as of substantial systemic importance through active accounts at EU CCPs.
The unknown in the past 12 months has been how the EU will define the “Active Account Requirement (AAR)”. In the past few days […]

Latest EUR Swaps market share for CCPs and SEFs

Eurex EUR share stands at 7-9% when measured by DV01. Globally, August 2021 saw the lowest EUR IRS volumes in the past 5 years. 23% of EUR IRS executes on-SEF. 60% of EUR CRD Index volumes now execute on-SEF. And we look at where clearing of EUR CRD Index trades is taking place. Now that […]

Using the Clarus API to monitor the latest Brexit impacts

After shouting “HopSchwiiz” in my adopted nation waaaaaay too much at the football last night, I needed a somewhat low-energy blog this morning. Step forward our easy-to-use API, which has recently been extended to include data from both CCPView and SEFView. Hopefully it’s not such a rollercoaster ride using the Clarus API 😛 Brexit Moves […]

CE3 Currencies and Derivatives Clearing

Did you know that volumes in CZK interest rate derivatives have increased ten-fold in the past five years? CZK is now the largest Rates market amongst CE3 currencies. In the same time-period, HUF cleared markets have actually shrunk. PLN markets have grown by about 50%. Did the expiry of the Exchange Rate Commitment in CZK […]

SFTR Public Data

In April I covered Securities Finance Transaction Reporting (SFTR) and ended that article by stating that I would check back end July for the first set of public reports from Trade Repositories. As there are four authorized Trade Repositories (DTCC, Regis-TR, UnaVista and KDPW), I had expected to look for the weekly data files published […]

€STR Discounting Switch

I’m sure that I am not the only one sat here wondering how the switch from EONIA to €STR discounting went at the CCPs over the weekend? As far as I understand it, the change in valuation (cash compensation) amounts should have settled on Monday (July 27th) morning. Will this switch lead to activity in […]

SFTR Reporting – Public Data

For some time now I have been noting, but not reading, articles about the Securities Financing Transactions Regulation (SFTR) being implemented in Europe, so today I wanted to take my first look into this regulation. Background The ESMA website has a good section on SFTR Reporting, so I will copy & paste liberally from that, […]