Amir from Clarus Financial Technology covers the effects of "compression" or "compaction" of cleared business within CCPs in the US.

My interest in writing this article was sparked by the 11 December press release from TrueEx announcing trades executed on its Portfolio Terminations and Compactions

Week 8 is in the books.  For this week, I set out to enhance the SEF reporting to be more similar to the Clarus SDR reporting.

The SEF Volume figures for Week 7 are now in. For the article please click, Week 7 SEF Statistics.

The SEF Volume figures for Week 6 are now in. In this weeks piece, we also look at whether: the Nov 1 expiration of the

Perhaps a market consensus is starting to form on which products should be mandated on SEFs? Why?   Javelin (in response to comments from CFTC and

Following on from our Week 4 Update, we have now published figures for Week 5. A few noteworthy changes: We isolate FRA volumes as these

Four calendar weeks are in the books.  A common trend is emerging.  The story is really the same as last week. SAME OLD STORY CREDIT:  Bloomberg

This article is an update of our previous article What the SEF Volumes Show: Week 2. As well as providing figures for the week of

The first calendar week of SEF trading is behind us.  If you are like me, you are wondering where the liquidity was / who attracted