Swaptions
Hedge funds pile into euro systematic vol selling
Range-bound rates markets in Europe entice hedge funds to sell short-dated straddle positions
How steepener trades burned hedge funds, and what happened next
Delays to central bank rate cuts torpedo popular trade, causing funds to pull capital – to the chagrin of sell-side desks
Continued decline of the one-stop shop
Dealer Rankings 2024: Only two banks make the top 10 across all rankings tables – others have focused on vertical dominance
Often fluid. Not always liquid
Dealer Rankings 2024: On the buy side and the sell side, the make-up and depth of OTC mini-markets can change rapidly
Clear warning on escape hatch for optimisation trades
CCPs fear Emir clearing mandate carve-out for portfolio rebalancing could be abused
Citi halves swaptions book with US retail funds
Counterparty Radar: Mutual funds and ETFs cut exposures by 22% in Q4
Basel’s cherry-picking toughens IRRBB shock scenarios
European banks want higher outlier thresholds to offset higher confidence level in new standard
Anticipating Fed cuts, Huntington drops $15.5bn of pay-fixed swaptions
Bank terminates costly hedging strategy merely a quarter after upping notional values by a third
Mizuho’s life insurance swaptions notional climbs 575% in a year
Counterparty Radar: Prudential, Global Atlantic add substantially to positions in Q3 as market’s notional total grows to $184bn
Citi swaption volumes surge as BlackRock relationship flourishes
Counterparty Radar: Market leader Pimco cuts nearly one-third of book in Q3
Blow-out on ‘dim sum’ bonds fuels boom in offshore rates options
Swaptions on USD/CNH swaps enjoy boost as investors adopt ‘all-you-can-eat’ approach to callables
Dutch pension reforms face political uncertainty
Elections cast doubt on pension funds’ ongoing transition to defined contribution structure
BlackRock, Pimco slash mutual fund swaptions books
Counterparty Radar: US retail funds retreat from trade as Morgan Stanley becomes top dealer in Q2
Podcast: Artur Sepp on rates volatility and decentralised finance
Quant says high volatility requires pricing and risk management models to be revisited
A robust stochastic volatility model for interest rates
A swaption pricing model based on a single-factor Cheyette model is shown to fit accurately
Global Atlantic’s swaptions book surges
Counterparty Radar: KKR-owned firm exploits lower volatility in Q1 as swaptions market for US life insurers grows 17%
Invesco is first US mutual fund to trade €STR swaptions
Counterparty Radar: Trades were some of just a handful of €STR swaptions to hit the market this year
Deutsche Bank’s swaptions trading with US retail funds soars
Counterparty Radar: Space grows 6% in Q1 as Citi’s book of business also surges
Dealers tackle US Libor swaptions transition
Complexity of legacy book and CCP deadlines sees banks turn to new Capitalab service
Same instrument, different market
Dealer Rankings 2023: For buy-side firms, the list of banks you can trade with depends on who you are
Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan lead Risk’s first Dealer Rankings
Dealer Rankings 2023: Analysis of more than 1,000 cuts of Counterparty Radar data offers rare glimpse of sell-side pecking order