Interest Rate and Credit Derivatives Weekly Trading Volume: Week Ending August 3 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 27% and 16%, respectively
    • FRAs traded notional and trade count increased by 22% and 14%, respectively
    • OIS traded notional and trade count increased by 6% and 14%, 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 49% and 40%, respectively
    • Fixed-for-floating IRS traded notional and trade count increased by 54% and 48%, respectively
    • FRAs traded notional increased by 13%, while trade count decreased by 3%
    • OIS traded notional and trade count increased by 108% and 69%, respectively
  • 85% of total traded notional was cleared vs 87% last year
  • 55% of total traded notional was executed On SEF vs. 62% last year

Credit Derivatives 

2018 YTD vs. 2017 YTD

  • Total credit derivatives traded notional and trade count increased by 41% and 23%, respectively
    • CDX HY traded notional and trade count increased by 52% and 27%, respectively
    • CDX IG traded notional and trade count increased by 57% and 38%, respectively
    • iTraxx Europe traded notional and trade count increased by 37% and 23%, 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 28% and 36%, respectively
    • CDX HY traded notional and trade count increased by 31% and 20%, respectively
    • CDX IG traded notional and trade count increased by 5% and 14%, respectively
    • iTraxx Europe traded notional and trade count increased by 72% and 99%, respectively
  • 81% of total traded notional was cleared vs. 78% last year
  • 76% of total traded notional was executed On SEF vs. 73% last year