ISDA recently published its review of Interest Rate Benchmarks for Q4 and the full year 2019. Key SOFR-related highlights from ISDA’s Interest Rate Benchmarks Review for 2019 include over 392 billion in traded notional for SOFR swaps and over 193 billion for SOFR basis swaps. SOFR futures saw a jump in open interest at the end of the year to 2.1 trillion from just .3 trillion at the beginning of the year.

That said, SOFR swaps accounted for 4.5% of all IRD traded notional referencing Risk Free Rates (RFRs) while IRD referencing IBORs represented about 61.6% of total IRD traded notional.

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