Do you know how much now trades in RFRs after the CME conversion exercises?
We’ve covered the CME conversion exercises in detail here on the Clarus blog because they were really significant events for market participants and for the broader transition to SOFR in US markets. You can catch up on the recent publications below: All of these blogs were written before we could assess the overall impact to […]
CME converted your Eurodollars. This is what happened next.
This is an interesting journey through the data for those of you interested in what happened following CME’s conversion to SOFR for Eurodollar contracts (April 14th 2023) and the first USD conversion of LIBOR swaps at CME to SOFR (April 21st 2023). Eurodollars The once mighty Eurodollar contract is no more. (If you didn’t already […]
Fast Valuation of Seasoned OIS Swaps
OIS swaps have coupons determined by compounded daily interest rates settled every few months. The valuation of future coupons is computationally similar to the valuation of a LIBOR payment, in that the valuation involves the ratio of two discount factors associated with the start and end of the accrual period. A problem can arise on […]
The Eurodollar is no more…
Whilst ostensibly this blog is about the March 2023 edition of the ISDA-Clarus RFR Adoption Indicator, I cannot let pass the disappearance of the largest futures contract that I ever traded without comment. A huge part of the Clarus blog in recent times has been focused on the transition away from IBORs and into RFRs. […]
Synthetic USD Libor Annoucement
A short blog today to highlight the recent Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) decision on synthetic USD Libor. As all our readers will know, USD Libor is set to end on 30-June-2023, at which point “panel banks” will stop contributing rates to ICE Benchmark Administration (IBA). So let’s summarize the recent FCA decision: There you have […]
Tracking CAD and SGD RFRs
ISDA and Clarus have now added CAD and SGD RFRs to the currencies we track in the RFR Adoption Indicator. This brings the total number of currencies up to 8: As we approach the end of USD LIBOR it will be interesting to see how other IBOR rates fare. CAD is in the middle of […]
Clearing Houses are about to convert your USD LIBOR swaps. What do you need to know?
A crucial step in the final transition to USD SOFR is the physical conversion of outstanding cleared OTC swaps from USD LIBOR to USD SOFR. Clearing Houses (CCPs) provide this as a service to clearing participants and it is a crucial “last step” in the move away from LIBOR. Remember that USD is the last […]
Average and Term SOFR Volumes in 2022
Recently I looked at Term SOFR and BSBY Volumes in 2022 and in that article I used a pretty loose definition of Term SOFR; basically anything where the index was not the standard overnight SOFR index. My goal being to isolate the trades not using overnight SOFR. Today I want to seperate out the use […]
Why Did SOFR Trading Decrease in January?
The ISDA-Clarus RFR Adoption Indicator for January 2023 has now been published. Showing; Why The Stasis? Am I becoming a broken record? In the past few weeks, I have written: All of those blogs are very much about the slower than required adoption of RFRs, particularly SOFR, as June 2023 fast approaches. What does this tell […]
Term SOFR and BSBY Volumes in 2022
We looked into Term SOFR and BSBY Swap Volumes in April 2022 and What’s New in Term SOFR in November 2022, so today I will update that blog to see how trade volumes in these reference indices developed in 2022. Term SOFR Swaps In SDRView, I can group USD FixedFloat Swaps by the Reference Index […]