Portfolio Compression for outstanding IRS (MIBOR Benchmark) trades
carried out on 16th March 2023
On 16th March 2023, CCIL
successfully carried out the 29th cycle of the Portfolio Compression exercise
in the Interest Rate Swaps market for MIBOR Benchmark, aimed at reducing the
overall notional outstandings and the number of outstanding contracts by
identifying economically redundant trades for early termination. 26 large
foreign, private and nationalized sector Banks and Primary Dealers participated
in this exercise. Of the 27,337 trades between 26 members which were found to
be eligible for being considered for compression, 24,306 trades were identified
for early termination achieving a compression rate of 88.91%. 23,942 trades
were terminated fully while 364 trades were partially terminated. The reduction
in market-wide Notional Outstanding of Rs. 8,68,493.01 crores was achieved
through this portfolio compression exercise. The compression exercise included
both trades cleared by CCIL and non-cleared trades.