CRD volumes at the end of Q3 2025
This blog covers the volumes, of credit derivatives (CRD) in September 2025, as submitted to us by CCPs, and as reported to US SDRs and SBSDRs. Key takeaways: A year-on-year (YoY) comparison of notional volumes between September 2025 and September 2024 shows that: All the charts, data, and statistics in this blog were sourced from CCPView and SDRView. Cleared CRD volumes First, we look at cleared CRD by currency. Chart 1: All CRD […]
FX derivatives volumes at the end of Q3 2025
This blog covers the volumes of FX derivatives (FXD) in September 2025, as reported by CCPs and to US SDRs. Key takeaways: A year-on-year (YoY) comparison of volumes between September 2025 and September 2024 shows that: Analysis by product group showed that clearing rates for NDFs on deliverable pairs are aligned with those for FX […]
Rates IM optimization and swaption terminations
In our June blog on rates IM optimization, we used SDR-reported swaption trade volume spike days from BGC’s London-based OTF platform to spot rates Capitolis IM optimization runs. Today, we look for signs of similar services from other optimization vendors in Q2 and Q3 2025 swaption volumes. Key takeaways Background There are three main players […]
Q3 2025 CCP volumes and share in IRD
Clarus CCPView has daily volume and open interest (OI) data published by each CCP, which is filtered, normalized, and aggregated to allow meaningful volume comparisons. This blog looks at single-sided gross notional volume in vanilla cleared rates swaps referencing IBORs and RFR indexes for quarter three (Q3) 2025 and the prior four quarters in all major currencies and regions. Key takeaways: […]
Reset optimization: part 2 – SPS activity
In part 1 of this blog, we promised to follow up with part 2. Here it is. Key takeaways Background In Part 1, we estimated that, of the $31.1 trillion SDR-reported FRA activity in H1 2025, reset optimization-driven FRA spike days from OSTTRA’s Reset service and Tullett Prebon’s Matchbook service (formerly “tpMatch”) totaled $25.0 trillion. […]
Reset optimization: part 1 – FRA activity
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 […]
What’s new in CCP Disclosures – Q2 2025?
Clearing houses have published their latest CPMI-IOSCO Quantitative Disclosures for Q2 2025. Key takeaways 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 […]
What’s new in JPY swaps in 2025?
Following our blog in April 2024, we further explore the volume expansions and market transitions in JPY IR derivatives. Key takeaways Cleared OTC interest rate derivatives (IRD) volumes As noted in our quarterly CCP IRD volumes blog, JPY IRD volumes exploded in 2024 and 2025. I wanted to look over a longer period to see […]
H1 2025 SDR-reported IR compression
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, […]
Volumes and most active names in credit derivatives – July 2025
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 […]