ISDA SIMM v25a the first off-cycle release
Version 2.5a ISDA has published ISDA SIMM v2.5a with a re-calibration of interest rate risk weights only. This is an off-cycle release, due to the higher interest rates volatility observed in 4Q 2022, compared to that in 2019-2021 and the stress period of Sep-08 to Jun-09; the time period used for the calibration of v2.5. Quarterly industry […]
Most Active Names in Credit and Equity Derivatives – April 2023
I last looked at the most active trading names in CDS and TRS in January 2023, so today I will update that for April 2023 data. This data is from U.S. SEC Securities Based Swap Data Repositorys (SBSDRs). CDS on Sovereigns Using SBSDRView, we can find the most active sovereigns for Credit Derivatives trades in April […]
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 […]
Parsimonious HJM-FMM Model with Risk-Free Term Rates
Authored by, Serena Manti and Gianluca Molteni of the Financial Engineering and A.I. team at List. In this post we would like to introduce our paper “Parsimonious HJM-FMM Model with the New Risk-Free Term Rates“, a modified version of the Heath-Jarrow-Morton (HJM) model that addresses the limitations of the traditional approaches in the context of […]
IDB Market Share in SOFR Swaps
Types of SOFR Swaps SOFR Swaps in the IDB (inter-dealer broker) market trade primarily as Spreadovers to US Treasuries. This is by far the most frequent trade type for IDBs, with the highest volume in notional or dv01 terms and the most important in setting prices of SOFR Swaps. Next are Curve/Switch trades, which are […]
Is Now The Time to Optimise Your Initial Margin?
Initial Margin ISDA have just published the latest edition of the “ISDA Year-End Margin Survey”: We have covered previous versions of this survey, which are always worth a re-read because you can laugh at any predictions we made in the past! Sifting through all of those reveals that between $650-800bn in extra IM was anticipated by ISDA […]
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 […]
There is a new MAT Filing!
Made Available to Trade Let’s do a poll to kick things off. Before you clicked on this blog, did you know that there had been a new MAT filing? I’m betting that most of our readers were well aware. The MAT filing, from Tradeweb, received decent press coverage, including from Risk: What Is It? A […]
1Q23 CCP Volumes and Share in CRD
A review of Credit Derivatives (CRD) volumes and market share at Clearing Houses (CCPs) in 1Q 2023. All the charts and detail from CCPView. CRD by Currency So 7% decreases in both USD and EUR from a year earlier. USD CDX, CDS and Swaptions CDX volumes in 2023Q1 were 90% of USD volume, single-name CDS 9% […]