As trading of standardised swaps became established on mandated electronic venues and banks came under increased capital pressures, opportunities emerged for alternative liquidity providers. For ...

Strong competition for flow eroded margins for macro trading businesses in 2024, presenting a challenge for rates traders after a bumper few years. For leveraging its diverse franchise to maintain its ...

The interest rates business is the single-biggest revenue source in the investment banking industry. Rates revenues exceeded those of the credit business even during the credit bubble years. But now ...

Earlier on Wednesday, Intercontinental Exchange or ICE, announced record activity across its interest rate derivatives markets with over 190M contracts traded in Q3, surpassing the previous record set ...

The 2025 Triennial Central Bank Survey of foreign exchange and over-the-counter interest rate derivatives markets activity reveals that trading in FX markets reached $9.6 trillion per day in April of ...

Lynn Strongin Dodds explores the challenges interest rate dealers face in maintaining and attracting new clients in an increasingly competitive environment. Interest-rate derivatives (IRD) dealers ...

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Financial markets—specifically derivatives—contain information about the range of probable future short-term interest rates. The information from this statistical distribution can help measure the ...

Discover effective strategies to protect your investments and boost income in rising interest rates, including bond ladders, ...

Interest Rate Probability Distributions Implied by Derivatives Prices is a daily measure of the distribution of future short-term interest rates, calculated from prices of fixed-income derivatives ...

Overall USD overall EUR overall JPY overall GBP overall All swaps two to 10 years All swaps 10 to 50 years All inflation products All vanilla options All exotic rates USD swaps two to 10 years USD ...

It has been a roller coaster ride in the derivatives world in 2025. We look back at some of the most notable events that have shaped the industry, and which are likely to continue reverberating into ...