Interest Rate and Credit Derivatives Weekly Trading Volume: Week Ending September 7, 2018

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Interest Rate Derivatives

2018 YTD vs. 2017 YTD

  • Total IRD traded notional and trade count increased by 22% and 15%, respectively
    • Fixed-for-floating IRS traded notional and trade count increased by 25% and 15%, respectively
    • FRAs traded notional and trade count increased by 24% and 16%, respectively
    • OIS traded notional and trade count increased by 6% and 15%, 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 decreased by 15%, while trade count increased by 1%
    • Fixed-for-floating IRS traded notional and trade count increased by 14% and 1%, respectively
    • FRAs traded notional decreased by 15%, while trade count increased by 6%
    • OIS traded notional decreased by 43%, while trade count increased 1%
  • 87% of total traded notional was cleared vs. 88% last year
  • 57% of total traded notional was executed On SEF vs. 52% last year

Interest Rate Derivatives: Benchmarks Data 

Week Ending September 7, 2018

  • SONIA traded notional totaled $64.7 billion, including $4.1 billion of basis swaps. Trade count totaled 165, including 29 basis swaps
  • TONA traded notional and trade count was $1.8 billion and 8, respectively
  • There were no SOFR and SARON trades

YTD Ending 

  • SOFR traded notional totaled $1.5 billion, including $1.4 billion of basis swaps. Trade count totaled 14, including 12 basis swaps
  • SONIA traded notional was $5.5 trillion, including  $70.6 billion of basis swaps. Trade count totaled 4,926, including 513 basis swaps
  • SARON traded notional and trade count was $1.2 billion and 9, respectively
  • TONA traded notional totaled $59.3 billion, including $1.2 billion of basis swaps. Trade count totaled 201, including 4 basis swaps

Credit Derivatives 

18 YTD vs. 2017 YT

  • Total credit derivatives traded notional and trade count increased by 34% and 20%, respectively
    • CDX HY traded notional and trade count increased by 40% and 18%, respectively
    • CDX IG traded notional and trade count increased by 43% and 28%, respectively
    • iTraxx Europe traded notional and trade count increased by 35% and 27%, respectively
  • 83% of total traded notional was cleared vs. 79% last year
  • 79% of total traded notional was executed On SEF vs. 74% last year

2018 Current Week vs. 2017 Current Week

  • Total credit derivatives traded notional and trade count increased by 9% and 10%, respectively
    • CDX HY traded notional and trade count decreased by 26% and 23%, respectively
    • CDX IG traded notional and trade count decreased by 10% and 3%, respectively
    • iTraxx Europe  traded notional and trade count increased by 41% and 50%, respectively
  • 82% of total traded notional was cleared vs. 84% last year
  • 78% of total traded notional was executed On SEF vs. 80% last year