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1-Apr-2025 What Would a Liberation Index Look Like? Today is meant to be Trump’s so-called “Liberation Day” with tariffs potentially being activated with some of the largest trading partners of the US. It is surely no coincidence that it is happening on April Fool’s Day. Just for the sake of it, I wondered what a “Liberation Index” might look like. What are the […] Request summary
26-Mar-2025 Transparency – Where do we go from here? USD OIS Trading The chart below shows the entire global USD OIS cleared swaps market in 2024: The chart shows the amount of DV01 traded in benchmark maturity buckets – ranging from 2Y to 50Y – in USD OIS versus both SOFR and Fed Funds. The data is from CCPView. This data is reported directly […] Request summary
17-Mar-2025 CNY Swaps – What’s New? When I last wrote about CNY Swaps back in 2020, I found that CNY swaps were the 9th most traded currency in cleared Interest Rate Derivatives. They have since increased in size significantly, and are now the 7th largest swaps market. Updating the data from CCPView; Showing; CCP Market Share CNY is one of the seven […] Request summary
11-Mar-2025 Swaption Volumes by Strike Q4 2024 Continuing the work on Swaptions, I delve into the options market activity in Q4. The quarter was characterised by trading activity related to the US election, and from a data perspective we cannot avoid giving a notable hat tip to the change in block sizes. Q4 2024 saw the following daily moves in ten year SOFR […] Request summary
4-Mar-2025 €STR Volumes and Market Share February 2025 €STR Futures Our €STR Dashboard summarises key liquidity attributes in this growing market: Showing; Open Interest CCPView provides all the data we need on Open Interest for €STR futures: EURIBOR No change that I can see in EURIBOR trading. It continues to dominate EUR STIR future volumes: January volumes in EURIBOR were close to the October […] Request summary
25-Feb-2025 The European Active Account Requirements Revisited With a huge Thank You to Eurex, I have to admit that I messed up on a recent blog post. It happens – we work to tight deadlines and cover complex topics. Still, I hold myself to a high standard and it really hurts when mistakes creep in. What Did I Get Wrong? On the […] Request summary