Dealer Rankings 2023
Dealer rankings
Every quarter, US mutual funds, ETFs and life insurers share trade-level detail about their derivatives positions – including the sell-side counterparty. Risk’s Dealer Rankings uses that data to describe the sell-side hierarchy for 10 different instruments – which banks are active, how big their books are, and whether they’re growing.
2024
Continued decline of the one-stop shop
Dealer Rankings 2024: Only two banks make the top 10 across all rankings tables – others have focused on vertical dominance
Often fluid. Not always liquid
Dealer Rankings 2024: On the buy side and the sell side, the make-up and depth of OTC mini-markets can change rapidly
The squeezing middle: data shows Europeans taking on US foes
Dealer Rankings 2024: Barclays, BNP Paribas and Deutsche grab bigger share of the pie
Cuts and points – how the Dealer Rankings work
Dealer Rankings 2024: We have a simple way to compare dealers. Sort of simple, anyway
2023
Same instrument, different market
Dealer Rankings 2023: For buy-side firms, the list of banks you can trade with depends on who you are
Cuts and points – how the Dealer Rankings work
Dealer Rankings 2023: We have a simple way to compare dealers. Sort of simple, anyway
In age of constraints, top dealers pick their battles
Dealer Rankings 2023: Three US banks are consistently top 10; none are consistently top five
Meet the sharks, stroke the rays in hidden OTC ecosystem
Dealer Rankings 2023: Analysis of millions of trades reveals big fish – and small ones – in 10 derivatives instruments