Benchmark Rates Liquidity Monitor: Issue 4
21 May 2021
Our monthly report reviews 20 charts showing the main metrics for total liquidity for interest rate and overnight indexed swaps, and for those same categories by tenor. The report includes graphs on monthly trading volumes and trade counts. Analysis breaks down via currencies, such as Euribor and ESTR (euro short-term rates), and GBP LIBOR (London Inter-bank Offered Rate) and SONIA (Sterling Over Night Indexed Average). There’s also coverage on rates with respect to the dollar and yen. We note for April that ESTR volumes were significantly higher, EURIBOR swaps trading more muted, and SONIA volumes being well above GBP LIBOR swaps trading across nearly all tenors.