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How Kwasi Kwarteng Has Increased Your Initial Margin

Initial Margin for GBP swaps has increased by up to 65% due to the mini-budget.5 of the 6 largest ever moves in GBP rates...

ISDA SIMM – What changes in v2.5?

ISDA SIMM v2.5 is effective December 3, 2022Updated with a full re-calibration and industry backtestingMeaning Initial Margin will change for most portfoliosIn particular, material increases for Commodity...

The GBP Financial Meltdown – what is still trading?

GBP markets are exceptionally volatile at the moment.We look at transparency data and find that derivatives markets are continuing to function.September 2022 will likely...

What’s New in CCP Quant Disclosures – 2Q22?

Clearing Houses have published their latest CPMI-IOSCO Quantitative Disclosures: Initial margin for ETD at $528 billion is down 7% QoQ and up 19% YoYInitial margin for IRS at $280 billion is up...

RFRs are now half of the market

The ISDA-Clarus RFR Adoption Indicator has now climbed above 50% for the first time.In August 2022 it hit a new all-time high at 51.1%.SOFR...

Here Are 6 Things I learnt after writing 400 blogs

The Numbers If I get the publishing date right, this should come up as my 400th blog for Clarus. We have a mini “leader board”...

What is new in GBP Swap Markets?

We look at vanilla swaps, inflation swaps and futures.Some markets have seen volumes reduce by over 50%.Whilst others recorded all-time record volumes in August...

Microservices to monitor new Inflation data

Here on the Clarus blog, we anticipated that LIBOR cessation in GBP, JPY and CHF would usher in simpler markets and “easier” trading this...

CDS Volumes now $6.6Trn higher than last year

Credit Derivative volumes have been huge in 2022.YTD volume data shows that 2022 will likely see all-time record volumes.Volumes are already $6.6Trn larger than...

Do you know what LIBOR cessation has done to volumes?

I wanted to follow up on two of our 2022 blogs to estimate the impact on overall volumes in GBP, JPY and CHF markets...

SOFR Futures are now bigger than Eurodollars

The ISDA-Clarus RFR Adoption Indicator retained its all-time high of 46.4% in July 2022.SOFR adoption hit a new record at 51.7% of the market.20.3% of EUR...

Are We In A Summer Lull?

I take a look at the volume data for July 2022 in CCPView to see whether we have now hit the quiet weeks of...

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