US Election Live – What is Trading?
Final Post Below you will see our updates throughout the day. As you can see, the action ended up a touch “samey” – there wasn’t the volatility that we saw back in 2016. However, we ended the day with 5,200 trades. That beat August 5th (which I think was the previous SDR record) by a […]
USD Rates Overview in 2024
We have previously noted that EUR Rates are now larger than USD Rates in terms of notional traded across OTC swaps (see here and here). This change has arisen because EUR has continued in a multi-rate environment – both €STR and EURIBOR swaps still trade, whilst USD has largely moved to SOFR, with Fed Funds […]
Our Top Blogs of 2023
For our first blog this year, I wanted to highlight our top blogs of 2023 and share a few statistics. Top New Blogs in 2023 Starting with a list of the most popular new blogs that we published in 2023. The top 5 with > 8,000 views and a total of 20,000 views for the […]
Swaption Volumes by Strike Q3 2023
Sometimes this blog would benefit from another Chris Barnes or Amir Khwaja! It has taken me until the tail-end of 2023 to revisit one of the most popular topics on the Clarus blog – Swaptions: I do not know which of the ~85 blogs I should not have written since I last wrote about Swaptions, […]
Clarus Goes Podcasting – What Do You Think?
Amir and I have taken the bold decision to dip our toes into podcasts. For the foreseeable future, we will be giving you a verbal update on the blogs (and what doesn’t make the blogs) once a week. It gives us a chance to quiz each other (in the nicest possible way) about what we […]
I asked ChatGPT to write a Clarus blog. Here is what happened….
I am travelling in APAC this week so I could do with a helping hand on the blog-writing front. SACCR is our most popular topic on the blog, so as the title says, I asked ChatGPT to help out. If you are not familiar with ChatGPT (where have you been?) you can check out this […]
Our Top Blogs of 2022
For our first blog this year, I wanted to highlight our top blogs of 2022 and share a few statistics. Top New Blogs in 2022 Starting with a list of the most popular new blogs that we published in 2022. The top 5 with > 12,000 views and a total of 25,000 views for the […]
Here Are 6 Things I learnt after writing 400 blogs
The Numbers If I get the publishing date right, this should come up as my 400th blog for Clarus. We have a mini “leader board” on our website, and you will see that Amir is (just) ahead of me – not for long! Looking at my history on the blog: My very first blog was […]
Top Blogs of 2021
For our first blog this year, I wanted to highlight our top blogs of 2021 and share a few statistics. Top New Blogs in 2021 Starting with a list of the most popular new blogs that we published in 2021. The top four with > 2,000 views each and a total of 30,000 views for […]
Our Sale to ION
Following on from our announcement that ION acquires Clarus Financial Technology, I wanted to provide some color on the rationale for the deal and what it means going forward. The Rationale After almost a decade as an independent firm why did we decide to become part of ION Group and more specifically ION Markets? A […]