MARKET NEWS
IG credit dealers go short before Fed cuts
As investors look to lock in higher yields ahead of Fed cuts, dealer net positions in IG corporate bonds of more than five years...
October sees record US Treasury volumes
A volatile October ended with record highs for the US Treasury market, but dealers are not reaping the rewards, Coalition Greenwich has found.
Average daily...
Acuiti: Sell-side not confident on compulsory clearing timeline
Sell-side players are not confident in the introduction of clearing markets across cash Treasury and repo markets, concerned that deadlines are unfeasible, infrastructure is...
Luke Lau promoted at Northwestern Mutual
Northwestern Mutual has promoted Luke Lau to a portfolio manager for long duration IG corporate bonds.
Based in Illinois, Lau has more than 25 years...
Coalition Greenwich: Convertible bonds embrace electronic trading
As in other areas of fixed income, electronic trading is on the rise among convertible bond investors. And as investors become more comfortable with...
Finbourne and Propellant launch CTP prospect to compete with fairCT
Finbourne Technology and Propellant Digital have officially launched their joint consolidated tape provider (CTP) venture, Bondtape.
“Propellant already has the infrastructure for aggregating MiFID data,...
FEATURES
Matt Howell: Building a centre of excellence for derivatives trading
Matt Howell reveals how T Rowe Price optimised its derivatives trading capabilities ahead of the expected boom in trading activity this year.
How are the...
US vs Europe: The transatlantic divide for corporate bond traders
The DESK examines the different sizes, protocols and feedback traders can use on each side of the Atlantic to execute corporate bond orders.
While US...
When not to use portfolio trading
Portfolio trading cannot please all of the people all of the time.
The success of portfolio trading (PT) as a protocol has taken bond markets...
The DESK: Systematic trading
The DESK discusses effective systematic trading, the benefits to end investors, and the skills needed to create and run systematic workflows with Chris Minck,...
Primary ignition – at both ends
Politics are being sidelined in the battle for efficiency in primary markets for buyers and for issuers
The top operational priority for buy-side traders in...
Meet the consolidated tape contenders
Europe’s development of a consolidated tape for trading data now has clear front runners and benefits.
Three firms have confirmed they will compete to be...
PROFILES
RESEARCH
August: US Treasuries record first trillion-dollar ADNV
US Treasuries had their first trillion-dollar month in August thanks to a surprise rate hike from the Bank of Japan and ongoing fiscal uncertainty...
PAST PROFILES
FROM THE ARCHIVES
Algomi/Euroclear deal may open access to 373,000 bonds
Pre-trade data provider Algomi has significantly extended the universe of bonds for which it can publish trading opportunities, by signing a new agreement with...
Viewpoint: MarketAxess to increase automation with Adaptive Auto-X
MarketAxess is aiming to initially launch Adaptive Auto-X in the first half of this year to provide clients with algorithmic workflows and allow them...
Agency Broker Hub: Business discontinuity
Business discontinuity: an ongoing threat for financial markets stability
By Lorenzo Bracchi and Monica Moschioni, Market Hub, IMI Corporate & Investment Banking, Intesa Sanpaolo
Financial markets have...
Trumid claims 33% market share growth in May
Trumid’s overall market share grew by a third in May, the firm has reported, with average daily volume (ADV) rising in tandem to US$5.2...
European Women in Finance : Diana Biggs : Driving digital change
Diana Biggs, Chief Executive Officer of Valour, got her first computer when she was just four years old. So it is unsurprising that her career...
IMTC launches new, streamlined platform
Fixed income technology specialist, IMTC, has launched a new and improved platform designed to enable fixed income investment managers to improve the accuracy and...
Beyond Liquidity: Tokenization could improve bond liquidity & transparency
Bond markets could potentially use tokenization to improve efficiency, liquidity and transparency according to the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) as consultancy McKinsey said...
Tradeweb saw ADV hit US$1 trillion in January 2021
Market operator Tradeweb has reported its total trading volume for January was US$20 trillion across its electronic marketplaces for rates, credit, equities and money...
Virtu signs up two bond ETF issuers for new NAV pricing tool
Exchange-traded fund (ETF) issuers Charles Schwab Investment Management and WisdomTree Asset Management are now using the eNAV ETF analytics tool, developed by electronic liquidity...
FILS 2024: Bond opportunity is in the eye of the beholder
Amid swirling geopolitical uncertainty, are bond portfolios recession-proof? This was the question debated by buyside panellists at the Fixed Income Leaders Summit on Friday.
For...
CFTC fines Nasdaq Futures over “false and misleading statements”
Nasdaq Futures has received a US$22 million penalty from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) for failing to sufficiently establish, monitor or enforce rules...
E-trading platforms show mixed results in October’s market share battle
Electronic trading fixed income platforms saw a slight drop off in volume relative to October, but strong activity against the same period last year.
Bond...
