Cleared swaps
Access the most capital-efficient solution for Interest Rate swaps cleared across 24 currencies.
Clearing the way forward
Capture unmatched capital efficiencies across futures, options, and swaps. Uncover opportunities in our market-leading emerging market currencies, gain exposure to a liquid cleared SOFR market, and access margin services that have saved market participants an average of $7.6 billion in daily margin costs.
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With a best-in-class global clearing solution across Interest Rates and FX, CME Group is the only clearing house to offer clearing for Interest Rate swaps, swaptions, and Interest Rate futures within a single netting pool.
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Latin American swaps
Capitalize on a deeply liquid market using clearing for Latin American swaps at CME Group, where more than 50 Latin American-based clients have cleared to date. Benefit from a leading collateral acceptance policy that includes MBONOS and Cetes.
Discover a more capital-efficient clearing solution covering 24 currencies of interest rate swaps and offering unparalleled savings via margin offsets against SOFR futures and options, Treasury futures and options, and Fed Funds futures.
AVERAGE DAILY MARGIN SAVINGS IN IRS AND FUTURES PORTFOLIOS IN 2023
$7.7 billion
SOFR-Related Savings
$3.1 billion
Average Savings
45%
Options-Related Savings
$1.1 billion
CUSTOMER ACCOUNTS
500+
Access clearing services for SOFR-based Interest Rate swaps for both the outright OIS and Basis Swaps and experience seamless trades between SOFR and the existing benchmarks.
NOTIONAL VALUE OUTSTANDING
$6.2 trillion
Notional value of cleared SOFR Swaps to date
$12.9 trillion
Participants have cleared SOFR Swaps
400+
Enhance your capital efficiencies with our market-leading clearing solution, which offers regular compression cycles for Brazilian, Colombian and Mexican swaps.
PARTICIPANTS CLEARING AT CME TO DATE
350+
AVG DAILY VOLUME IN 2023 LATAM IRS
$53.1 billion
CHILEAN CAMARA AND COLOMBIAN IBR OIS AVG DAILY VOLUME IN 2023
$15.1 billion
Stay ahead of global regulations with a cash-settled FX clearing solution that provides superior cost and capital efficiencies compared to physically-delivered products and cross-margining against all OTC FX products.
Cash-Settled Forwards
26
Non-Deliverable Forwards
11
Cash-Settled Options
7
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CME CORE
Use our interactive margin calculator to evaluate your initial margin requirements. Run indicative margin requirements through manual entry or file upload on all CME Group products, both listed and OTC.
Use cases
Listed options
By supporting SOFR and Treasury options in portfolio margining, CME Group clients can leverage their excess long net option value to cover cleared swap margin requirements
In 2023, SOFR and Treasury options helped portfolio margining users achieved over $1 billion in daily margin savings on average.
CME Margin Services
Facilitating capital efficiencies for a capital-constrained world
Learn how cleared swaps can help you save on overnight funding costs and provide indicative margin savings.
Margining tools
Run indicative margins across your portfolio—including CME Group futures, options, and OTC.
Getting started
Take advantage of our streamlined onboarding and the operational efficiences of OTC Interest Rates and FX swaps through CME Clearing.
Eligible collateral
Enjoy the flexibility of posting collateral with CME Clearing, where US dollars, asset-backed securities and agency bonds are among the accepted ranges.
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