Interest Rate and Credit Derivatives Weekly Trading Volume: Week Ending March 22, 2019

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Interest Rate Derivatives

2019 YTD vs. 2018 YTD

  • Total IRD traded notional increased by 2%, while trade count decreased by 0.2%
    • Fixed-for-floating IRS traded notional and trade count decreased by 2% and 4%, respectively
    • FRAs traded notional and trade count increased by 14% and 12%, respectively
    • OIS traded notional decreased by 6%, while trade count increased by 7%
  • 89% of total traded notional was cleared vs. 88% last year
  • 61% of total traded notional was executed On SEF vs. 56% last year

 

2019 Current Week vs. 2018 Current Week

  • Total IRD traded notional decreased by 6%, while trade count increased by 4%
    • Fixed-for-floating IRS traded notional and trade count increased by 1% and 6%, respectively
    • FRAs traded notional and trade count decreased by 9% and 24%, respectively
    • OIS traded notional and trade count decreased by 16% and 4%, respectively
  • 88% of total traded notional was cleared vs. 90% last year
  • 55% of total traded notional was executed On SEF vs. 51% last year

Interest Rate Derivatives: Benchmark Data 

Week Ending March 22, 2019

  • SOFR traded notional and trade count totaled $9.0 billion and 2, respectively
  • SONIA traded notional totaled $208.2 billion, including $4.9 billion of basis swaps. Trade count totaled 214, including 29 basis swaps
  • There were no SARON trades
  • TONA traded notional and trade count was $9.0 billion and 16, respectively

YTD Ending March 22, 2019

  • SOFR traded notional totaled $21.1 billion, including $2.7 billion of basis swaps. Trade count totaled 64, including 21 basis swaps
  • SONIA traded notional totaled $1.5 trillion, including  $38.2 billion of basis swaps. Trade count totaled 2,590, including 268 basis swaps
  • SARON traded notional and trade count totaled $1.1 billion and 8, respectively
  • TONA traded notional totaled $36.9 billion, including $1.0 billion of basis swaps. Trade count totaled 97, including 1 basis swap

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Credit Derivatives 

2019 YTD vs. 2018 YTD

  • Total credit derivatives traded notional and trade count decreased by 17% and 9%, respectively
    • CDX HY traded notional and trade count decreased by 22% and 10%, respectively
    • CDX IG traded notional decreased by 9%, while trade count increased by 1%
    • iTraxx Europe traded notional decreased by 4%, while trade count increased by 56%
  • 80% of total traded notional was cleared vs. 83% last year
  • 77% of total traded notional was executed On SEF vs. 79% last year

2019 Current Week vs. 2018 Current Week

  • Total credit derivatives traded notional decreased by 11%, while trade count increased by 1%
    • CDX HY traded notional and trade count decreased by 19% and 6%, respectively
    • CDX IG traded notional and trade count decreased by 12% and 5%, respectively
    • iTraxx Europe traded notional and trade count increased by 68% and 142%, respectively
  • 86% of total traded notional was cleared vs. 88% last year
  • 82% of total traded notional was executed on SEF, flat compared with last year