Interest Rate and Credit Derivatives Weekly Trading Volume: Week Ending March 8, 2019

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Interest Rate Derivatives

2019 YTD vs. 2018 YTD

  • Total IRD traded notional increased by 3%, while trade count decreased by 2%
    • Fixed-for-floating IRS traded notional and trade count decreased by 3% and 6%, respectively
    • FRAs traded notional and trade count increased by 16% and 14%, respectively
    • OIS traded notional decreased by 4%, while trade count increased by 9%
  • 89% of total traded notional was cleared vs. 88% last year
  • 62% of total traded notional was executed On SEF vs. 57% last year

 

2019 Current Week vs. 2018 Current Week

  • Total IRD traded notional and trade count increased by 0.3% and 18%, respectively
    • Fixed-for-floating IRS traded notional and trade count increased by 31% and 23%, respectively
    • FRAs traded notional decreased by 20%, while trade count increased by 7%
    • OIS traded notional and trade count increased by 12% and 11%, respectively
  • 89% of total traded notional was cleared, flat compared with last year
  • 58% of total traded notional was executed On SEF vs. 57% last year

 

Interest Rate Derivatives: Benchmark Data 

Week Ending March 8, 2019

  • SOFR traded notional totaled $1.6 billion, including $1.3 billion of basis swaps. Trade count totaled 8, including 7 basis swaps
  • SONIA traded notional totaled $94.9 billion, including $3.2 billion of basis swaps. Trade count totaled 149, including 14 basis swaps
  • There were no SARON trades
  • TONA traded notional and trade count totaled $2.5 billion and 7, respectively

YTD Ending March 8, 2019

  • SOFR traded notional totaled $11.5 billion, including $2.4 billion of basis swaps. Trade count totaled 59, including 19 basis swaps
  • SONIA traded notional totaled $1.2 trillion, including  $30.7 billion of basis swaps. Trade count totaled 2,163, including 216 basis swaps
  • SARON traded notional and trade count totaled $1.1 billion and 7, respectively
  • TONA traded notional totaled $23.4 billion, including $1.0 billion of basis swaps. Trade count totaled 74, including 1 basis swap

 

Credit Derivatives 

2019 YTD vs. 2018 YTD

  • Total credit derivatives traded notional and trade count decreased by 19% and 10%, respectively
    • CDX HY traded notional and trade count decreased by 23% and 11%, respectively
    • CDX IG traded notional decreased by 10%, while trade count increased by 2%
    • iTraxx Europe traded notional decreased by 16%, while trade count increased by 44%
  • 79% of total traded notional was cleared vs. 83% last year
  • 76% of total traded notional was executed On SEF vs. 78% last year

 

2019 Current Week vs. 2018 Current Week

  • Total credit derivatives traded notional and trade count increased by 7% and 13%, respectively
    • CDX HY traded notional and trade count increased by 8% and 33%, respectively
    • CDX IG traded notional and trade count increased by 25% and 32%, respectively
    • iTraxx Europe traded notional and trade count increased by 16% and 75%, respectively
  • 81% of total traded notional was cleared vs. 83% last year
  • 78% of total traded notional was executed On SEF vs. 79% last year