Tradeweb has completed the industry’s first fully electronic swaption termination.
Swaption terminations allow market participants to manage and reduce their existing swaption positions. As the instruments cannot be easily compressed, holders must terminate or novate positions to fully remove them from their books before expiry.
Tradeweb completed a fully electronic swaption package trade last year.
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Citadel and Wells Fargo conducted the swaption termination on Tradeweb’s Swap Execution Facility. Post-trade processing was routed through OSTTRA’s MarkitWire platform.
Alongside the new transaction type, Tradeweb clients can now input MarkitWire IDs for existing swaptions directly into the platform. Once the swaption termination is agreed, a notification is sent directory to MarkitWire. This will reduce transcription and trade booking errors, the Tradeweb said, while accelerating post-trade confirmation.
Troy Dixon, managing director and co-head of global markets at Tradeweb, stated that the functionality “[enables] clients to streamline workflows, reduce gross notional exposure and consolidate large line items.”
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