IRD and CDS Weekly Analysis: week ending October 9, 2015

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Interest Rates Derivatives

2015 year-to-date vs. 2014 year-to-date

  • Overall interest rate notionals decreased 5%, while trade counts increased 11%
  • Cleared notionals decreased 7%, while trade counts were up 15%
  • Both SEF notionals and trade counts were up 3% and 19% respectively
  • 78% of total notional was cleared vs. 79%
  • 57% of total notional was executed On SEF vs. 52%

2015 current week vs. 2014 current week

  • Both overall interest rate notionals and trade counts were down 25% and 23% respectively
  • Both cleared notionals and trade counts were down 24% and 16% respectively
  • Both SEF notionals and trade counts were down 12% and 13% respectively
  • 80% of total notional was cleared vs. 79%
  • 60% of total notional was executed On SEF vs. 52%

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Credit Default Swaps

2015 year-to-date vs. 2014 year-to-date

  • Both overall CDS notionals and trade counts were down 16% and 5% respectively
  • Cleared notionals were down 9%, while trade counts were up 1%
  • SEF notionals were down 1% while trade counts were up 7%
  • 79% of total notional was cleared vs. 73%
  • 70% of total notional was executed On SEF vs. 59%

2015 current week vs. 2014 current week

  • CDS notionals were down 49%, while trade counts were down 49%
  • Cleared notionals were down 49%, while trade counts were down 48%
  • SEF notionals were down 47%, while trade counts were also down 47%
  • 86% of total notional was cleared vs. 85%
  • 77% of total notional was executed On SEF, vs. 74%

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