Interest Rate and Credit Derivatives Weekly Trading Volume: Week Ending March 24, 2023

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ISDA has launched a new SwapsInfo page that shows weekly traded notional and trade count for credit derivatives reported under Securities and Exchange Commission regulations. This data includes only security-based swap transactions reported to DTCC security-based swap data repository beginning February 2022. It does not cover security-based transactions reported to ICE Trade Vault and does not include any transactions that are required to be disclosed under Commodity Futures Trading Commission regulations. 

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Interest Rate Derivatives

2023 YTD vs. 2022 YTD

  • Total IRD traded notional and trade count increased by 23% and 30%, respectively
    • Fixed-for-floating IRS traded notional decreased by 40%, while trade count increased by 6%
    • FRA traded notional and trade count increased by 32% and 39%, respectively
    • OIS traded notional and trade count increased by 75% and 70%, respectively
  • 78% of total traded notional was cleared vs. 74% last year
  • 52% of total traded notional was executed on SEFs vs. 57% last year

Interest Rate Derivatives: Benchmark Data

YTD Ending March 17, 2023

  • SOFR traded notional totaled $20.6 trillion, including $2.0 trillion of basis swaps. Trade count totaled 216.5 thousand, including 14.2 thousand basis swaps
  • SONIA traded notional totaled $8.9 trillion, including $222.2 billion of basis swaps. Trade count totaled 46.7 thousand, including 1.9 thousand basis swaps
  • SARON traded notional totaled $281.3 billion, including $21.9 billion of basis swaps. Trade count totaled 5.6 thousand, including 244 basis swaps
  • TONA traded notional totaled $1.6 trillion, including $333.9 billion of basis swaps. Trade count totaled 21.7 thousand, including 3.5 thousand basis swaps
  • €STR traded notional totaled $14.0 trillion, including $491.4 billion of basis swaps. Trade count totaled 28.3 thousand, including 3.3 thousand basis swaps

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Credit Derivatives Reported under CFTC Regulation

2023 YTD vs. 2022 YTD

  • Total credit derivatives traded notional and trade count decreased by 22% and 10%, respectively
    • CDX HY traded notional and trade count decreased by 16% and 9%, respectively
    • CDX IG traded notional and trade count decreased by 17% and 4%, respectively
    • iTraxx Europe traded notional and trade count decreased by 25% and 5%, respectively
  • 87% of total traded notional was cleared vs. 83% last year
  • 85% of total traded notional was executed on SEFs vs. 82% last year

Credit Derivatives Reported under SEC Regulation

YTD Ending March 17, 2023

  • Credit derivatives traded notional totaled $182.3 billion, while trade count totaled 56.7 thousand
    • Corporate single-name CDS traded notional totaled $136.9 billion, and trade count was 43.1 thousand
    • Sovereign single-name CDS traded notional totaled $37.1 billion, and trade count was 9.1 thousand
  • 53% of total traded notional was cleared