SwapsInfo Second Quarter 2016 Review

The ISDA SwapsInfo Quarterly Review provides analysis on interest rate derivatives and credit default swap index trading activity. The report provides a breakdown of publicly available data to analyze the impact of regulatory change on swap execution facility and bilateral trading volumes, as well as cleared and non-cleared activity.

Interest rate derivatives and CDS index notional volume and trade count data is taken from the ISDA SwapsInfo site (swapsinfo.org), using data from the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation and Bloomberg swap data repositories.

Documents (1) for SwapsInfo Second Quarter 2016 Review

Remove Bureaucracy from Cross-margin Approvals

Cross-margining programs play a critical role in financial markets. By ensuring margin requirements more closely reflect the actual risk of a portfolio of products, they reduce liquidity strain and improve market efficiency, both of which will become even more important...

Joint Response on CCP Resolution

On September 7, ISDA and FIA responded to a Bank of England (BOE) discussion paper on central counterparty (CCP) resolution. The associations support greater clarity on valuation capabilities prior to a crisis scenario and the boundary between recovery and resolution,...