When the need for a transparent risk management process in the credit default swaps market was identified, we responded by launching ICE Clear Credit – the world’s first CDS clearing house. With the most comprehensive product offering, robust end-of-day pricing methodology and capital efficiencies generated through a sophisticated risk model, this clearing house enables us to serve your best interests while we help mitigate systemic risk in the marketplace. Financial resources held at the clearing house, including margin, clearing member guaranty funds and ICE’s own “skin-in-the-game,” total more than $17 billion. ICE Clear Credit is regulated by the CFTC and SEC and has been designated a systemically important financial market utility by the Financial Stability Oversight Council.
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Products Cleared
ICE Clear Credit clears index and single-name CDS instruments across North American, European and emerging markets and offers portfolio margining opportunities to help increase capital efficiencies.
THE GLOBAL LEADER IN CLEARED CDS VOLUME
ICE CDS Clearing* | ICE Clear Credit** | ICE Clear Europe | |||||
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Index | Corporate Single Names | Sovereign Single Names | Index | Corporate Single Names | Sovereign Single Names | Total*** | |
Instruments | 136 | 431 | 34 | 60 | 182 | 7 | 601 |
Number of Trades Cleared | 1,194,075 | 782,592 | 134,755 | 505,040 | 685,820 | 20,825 | 3,323,107 |
Gross Notional Cleared | $52.1 trillion | $4.13 trillion | $1.30 trillion | €17.7 trillion | €3.18 trillion | $422 billion | $84.8 trillion |
Buy-side Notional Cleared | $24.5 trillion | $184 billion | $59.9 billion | €101 billion | €9.66 billion | $4.19 billion | $24.9 trillion |
Open Interest | $496 billion | $297 billion | $135 billion | €164 billion | €236 billion | $78.3 billion | $1.43 trillion |
Clearing Members | 30 | 22 | 52 |
* Comprehensive data from launch through January 13, 2017. CDS clearing began at ICE Clear Credit (formerly ICE Trust) in March 2009 and at ICE Clear Europe in July 2009.
** Indices include North American, European (iTraxx) and Emerging Market (CDX) instruments. Corporate single names include both North American and European instruments. All indices and single names are available for both client and dealer-dealer clearing.
*** Because many instruments are listed for clearing at both ICE Clear Credit and ICE Clear Europe, the total instruments cleared is less than the sum of each column.