Eurex, Europe’s leading derivatives exchange, reports a 13 percent increase in traded contracts for May compared to the previous year, up from 142.5 million to 161.3 million contracts. Interest rate derivatives went up by 41 percent to 78.3 million contracts. Equity derivatives grew by 15 percent compared to May 2023, while index derivatives decreased 12 percent to 54.5 million traded contracts.

In OTC Clearing the notional outstanding volumes experienced a 6 percent growth in May, reaching EUR 36,134 billion compared to EUR 34,051 billion in the same month in the previous year. The notional outstanding volumes in interest rate swaps rose by 7 percent, reaching EUR 15,028 billion, while the notional outstanding in overnight index swaps increased by 25 percent to EUR 3,679 billion.

Eurex Repo, Eurex’s leading electronic market for secured funding and financing, experienced a 25 percent decline in its average daily term-adjusted repo volumes in May compared to May 2023, amounting to EUR 301.9 billion. Daily GC Pooling volumes decreased with 13 percent to EUR 164.1 billion while the Repo Market saw a decline of 35 percent to EUR 137.8 billion. For 2024 year-to-date (January to May), the overall repo volume increased by 12 percent compared to same period in 2023, with GC Pooling growing by 24 percent for this period. 

Business overview – May 2024

1 The total number of contracts traded includes other asset classes such as commodities.
2 Notional cleared volumes including post trading events such as compression.
3 Includes all currencies.