With the deepening financial system reform and continuous interest rate liberalization, Chinas interest rate derivatives market has experienced a rapid development. Based on the empirical analysis, this paper explores various driving factors including banking credit, bond markets and market interest rate. It finds that credit effect, bond market effect, interest rate effect and momentum effect are significant in the development of Chinas interest rate derivatives market, with momentum effect the strongest and bond market effect the weakest. Finally, it put forwards the policy recommendations for the improvement in the interest rate derivatives market: speeding up the marketization of interest rates, expanding market participants, enriching the varieties of derivatives, strengthening the market supervision, etc. |