Interest Rate and Credit Derivatives Weekly Trading Volume: Week Ending October 5, 2018

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Interest Rate Derivatives

2018 YTD vs. 2017 YTD

  • Total IRD traded notional and trade count increased by 21% and 14%, respectively
    • Fixed-for-floating IRS traded notional and trade count increased by 24% and 15%, respectively
    • FRAs traded notional and trade count increased by 23% and 14%, respectively
    • OIS traded notional and trade count increased by 5% and 13%, respectively
  • 88% of total traded notional was cleared, flat compared with last year
  • 57% of total traded notional was executed On SEF vs. 55% last year

2018 Current Week vs. 2017 Current Week

  • Total IRD traded notional and trade count increased by 38% and 22%, respectively
    • Fixed-for-floating IRS traded notional and trade count increased by 29% and 27%, respectively
    • FRAs traded notional and trade count increased by 78% and 16%, respectively
    • OIS traded notional and trade count increased by 1% and 5%, respectively
  • 87% of total traded notional was cleared vs. 85% last year
  • 61% of total traded notional was executed On SEF vs. 48% last year

Interest Rate Derivatives: Benchmark Data 

Week Ending October 5, 2018

  • SOFR basis swaps traded notional and trade count was $0.2 billion and 4, respectively
  • SONIA traded notional totaled $69.4 billion, including $0.6 billion of basis swaps. Trade count totaled 133, including 9 basis swaps
  • SARON traded notional and trade count was $0.5 billion and 1, respectively
  • TONA traded notional and trade count was $0.1 billion and 3, respectively

YTD Ending October 5, 2018

  • SOFR traded notional totaled $1.8 billion, including $1.6 billion of basis swaps. Trade count totaled 19, including 16 basis swaps
  • SONIA traded notional was $6 trillion, including $79.5 billion of basis swaps. Trade count totaled 5,563, including 570 basis swaps
  • SARON traded notional and trade count was $1.8 billion and 11, respectively
  • TONA traded notional totaled $63.2 billion, including $1.2 billion of basis swaps. Trade count totaled 215, including 4 basis swaps

Credit Derivatives 

2018 YTD vs. 2017 YTD

  • Total credit derivatives traded notional and trade count increased by 29% and 19%, respectively
    • CDX HY traded notional and trade count increased by 35% and 16%, respectively
    • CDX IG traded notional and trade count increased by 35% and 24%, respectively
    • iTraxx Europe traded notional and trade count increased by 32% and 27%, respectively
  • 83% of total traded notional was cleared vs. 80% last year
  • 79% of total traded notional was executed On SEF vs. 75% last year

2018 Current Week vs. 2017 Current Week

  • Total credit derivatives traded notional and trade count increased by 27% and 35%, respectively
    • CDX HY traded notional and trade count increased by 79% and 45%, respectively
    • CDX IG traded notional and trade count increased by 10% and 11%, respectively
    • iTraxx Europe traded notional and trade count increased by 31% and 46%, respectively
  • 85% of total traded notional was cleared vs. 82% last year
  • 81% of total traded notional was executed On SEF vs. 77% last year