April Rates Recap

Based on extensive customer input, monthly and quarterly futures contracts on the Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR) will launch on May 7, pending regulatory review.

Contract listings will comprise the nearest 7 calendar months for 1-Month futures and the nearest 20 March quarterly months for 3-Month futures.

The 1-Month SOFR futures strip will prove useful to market participants who seek finer granularity in framing market expectations of future SOFR values over the nearby 1-month to 7-month interval during which the front 3-Month contract becomes more set each day from daily SOFR fixings.    

View contracts specs & new educational resources

Gain insight into the Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR) with our latest whitepaper, covering:

• SOFR background and composition
• Comparing 1-Month SOFR to 1-Month EFFR
• Comparing 3-Month SOFR to 3-month OIS and USD LIBOR
• The details of SOFR futures and examples of hedging or spreading applications    

Read the whitepaper

Eurodollar versus Fed Fund futures Intercommodity Spreads (ICS) have seen consistent streaming liquidity and increased trading since launched March 12.

• Offers simple execution of a common trading strategy, reducing leg risk on executions and enabling formation of spread liquidity
• ICS on SOFR will be available May 7, pending regulatory review, including SR1 v SR3, SR1 v FF, SR3 v ED and SR3 v FF
• New STIR spread analytics tool

SOFR Spreads Whitepaper | Product Overview

Data through March 29, 2018, unless otherwise specified.  *Reported as a 52-week moving average as of 3/14/18 with cash volumes sourced from NY FRB data. **Large OI Holders sourced from CFTC COT report.