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 list below.

If you have not read one or more of these blogs, please click on a title of interest.

1	2022 CCP volumes and market share in IRD
2	Clearing houses are about to convert your usd libor swaps
3	Swap markets in China – what you should know
4	Deutsche Bank credit default swaps
5	Average and term SOFR volumes in 2022
6	Now everyone can understand bank capital requirements
7	A new look at ESTR futures
8	What you need to know about BRL swaps
9	Clearing of US Treasuries – what are people saying
10	2Q23 CCP volumes and share in IRD
11	ISDA SIMM – what changes in v2.6
12	Central clearing of bonds and repos
13	1Q23 CCP volumes and share in IRD
14	Bollinger Greenspan and the millenium bug libor is now dead
15	SOFR swap volumes and share july 2023
16	How to trade a bank run

(Note: Blogs published earlier in the 2023 are more likely to be higher in the rankings as had have more time to accumulate views than more recent blogs).

Top Blogs in 2023

Next the blogs that we published in earlier years, ranked by their views in the year 2023. These evergreen blogs get views each day, mostly via Google search and have become prime reference articles on a topic.

The top five with > 27,000 views and a cumulative 72,000 views for these top 25 blogs.

Rank	Title	2022 Rank
1	array formulas in excel	1
2	sofr and fedfunds rate comparison	2
3	mechanics of cross currency swaps	3
4	settle to market what you need to know about stm	4
5	mechanics and definitions of spread and butterfly	8
6	frtb default risk charge	6
7	interest rate swaps made easy what you need to know	n/a
8	mechanics and definitions of saccr part 1	n/a
9	sa ccr standardised approach counterparty credit risk	5
10	mechanics and definitions of carry in swap markets	11
11	sofr swap nuances	9
12	principal component analysis of the swap curve	15
13	frtb curvature charge	14
14	current exposure methodology what you need to know	10
15	the imm roll for swaps	13
16	saccr explaining the calculations	7
17	frtb excel calculator for the standarised approach	21
18	ois swap nuances	20
19	isda simm excel calculator	16
20	frtb internal models or standardised approach	18
21	risk participation agreements what are they	17
22	a dashboard for interest rate risk	22
23	saccr vs cem comparisons	12
24	brl interest rate swaps	25
25	cme lch basis for dummies	n/a

The top 4 exactly the same in 2023 as 2022, some moves up and down and 3 new entries in the list.

Categories and Topics

We published 86 new blogs in 2023 and the most active categories were:

• IBOR/RFR with 24 blogs
• Clearing with 14 blogs
• Swap Data Repository with 12 blogs
• Derivatives with 7 blogs
• Futures with 5 blogs
• CDS Index with 3 blogs
• Margin/Risk with 3 blogs

These categories reflect not only our own interest but more importantly what our readers find to be of value based on the view statistics data that we collect.

Podcasts

This year we also started a regular podcast as part of ION Markets ConversatION.

Most of the episodes follow a 10 minute Quick Takes format with a discussion on a recent blog.

All episodes are available at Apple Podcasts and Spotify, with 29 currently published, of which 14 have been recorded by Chris and I as Quick Takes, mostly from October onwards.

It is great to see the listen statistics for these increasing over the past few months; the top 5 each with between 185 to 215 downloads are shown below ( with the links to Apple or Spotify).

1	Using SACCR to monitor Counterparty Credit Risk	Apple	Spotify
2	The truth about SONIA derivatives liquidity	Apple	Spotify
3	ISDA SIMM – What changes in v2.6	Apple	Spotify
4	3Q23 CCP Volumes and Share in CRD and FXD	Apple	Spotify
5	3Q23 CCP Volumes and Share in IRD	Apple	Spotify

Website Statistics

Traffic on the Clarus website averaged 14,250 users a month in 2023.

• We published 86 new blog articles in the year.
• There are now 1,184 blog articles on our website,
• 60 of these had > 500 views in 2023.

The Clarus website had 410,000 page views from 265,000 sessions in the year.

A Little Competition

If you have a long memory, you may recall we had a competition going at the start of 2023, which I reproduce from my January 2023 blog below:

Those who bet on Chris did well.

The curent scores are Chris with 456 and Amir with 452 (as of 31 Dec 2023).

I have gone from being up 3 to down 4 in 12 months, a move of 7.

Still, all to play for in 2024.

Place your bets again.

Final Thoughts

We strive each week to create original content that educates, informs and interests our readers.

We hope to continue to do the same in 2024.

It is gratifying that the data shows that so many of you follow the Clarus blog.

And more recently listen to our Podcast.

We hope you will continue to do so.

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Your support and comments are much appreciated.

I wish you all a Happy New Year.