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Fear of job loss harming traders’ mental health
Exchanges are calling for 24-hour trading. Firms are working with less resources. Markets are increasingly complex. And traders are worried about job loss.
In the...
Ba leads multi-asset trading at Banque de Luxembourg
Abdoulaye Ba has been promoted to head of multi-asset trading at Banque de Luxembourg.
He replaces Quentin Gaget, who has held the role since 2023.
Banque...
Tradeweb brings dealer algo execution services to US Treasuries
Tradeweb’s dealer algorithm execution services are now available for US Treasuries, as the company seeks to offer clients more optionality around liquidity access and...
Indian bond market growth draws international attention
Indian capital markets are booming – and fixed income is playing a crucial role. International investors are seeking to cash in on the success,...
Ex-BlackRock, Bloomberg exec joins SimCorp sales
Jesper Tyrer has joined SimCorp as managing director and head of sales for APAC. He is based in Singapore.
Investment management solutions provider SimCorp reported...
The Housing Finance Corporation picks BondAuction for primary issuance
BondAuction has partnered with The Housing Finance Corporation to improve access to affordable housing finance in the UK.
Affordable housing aggregator The Housing Finance Corporation...
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Credit futures see OI and ADV increase more than sevenfold YoY
The adoption of credit futures as a mainstream credit trading vehicle is broadening across venues and currencies: US$ iBoxx total return based futures traded...
Trade size growth undercuts European bond market ‘equitification’
Since 2023 European corporate bond markets have seen trades size grow, as trading platforms report increasing volumes
“If we break down electronic trading growth in European...
The pretenders, and kingmakers, to the bond throne
Dealers are backing several new trading platforms who are fighting major incumbents for market share.
In the bond market, the trading platform landscape has been...
Declaration of dependence
US president to oversee financial institution regulation amid deregulation drive.
Executive orders signed by US president, Donald Trump, have given him oversight of all US...
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Bond traders predict data science/AI use explosion in 2026
The DESK’s Corporate Bond Liquidity Access Survey, supported by LTX, finds trading desks are on the cusp of change.
Buy-side traders see 2026 as a turning...
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HilltopSecurities names Jason Lisec head of fixed income capital markets
Hilltop Securities has named Jason Lisec as head of fixed income capital markets. Lisec joined HilltopSecurities in 2009 and has served as co-head of...
Ancoa goes into adminstration
Cinnober Financial Technology has acquired the assets of Ancoa Software, the UK-based market surveillance specialist company, as a going concern. Terms of the deal have...
Issuing at the top of the market
The high levels of bond issuance this year, made at what is widely expected to be peak interest rates, are potentially building up high...
TMPG meets to discuss key challenges in the Treasury market structure
The Treasury Market Practices Group (TMPG), an industry roundtable coordinated by the US Federal Reserve (The Fed) met on Tuesday 19 October to discuss...
EXCLUSIVE: Citadel Securities confirms plans to enter corporate bond market
Citadel Securities has announced plans to enter the corporate bond market this year, The DESK can reveal, in a surprise play for one of...
Euronext’s European govie mini-futures go live
Euronext has launched its mini-futures for European government bonds.
The products focus on the 10-year OAT, Bund, Bono and BTP. They also cover the first...
Bank of England tacitly acknowledges impact of capital rules on market making
The identical nature of proprietary trading and market making has been highlighted in a paper published by the UK’s Prudential Regulatory Authority (PRA) the...
TradeTech 2023: The digitalisation of fixed income
Delegates at TradeTech in Paris heard how the evolution of digital assets is allowing investors to access traditional exposures via new mechanisms.
“At Union Investment,...
TradFi meets DeFi: Integrating FIX and distributed ledgers
Led by global co-chair Digital Assets & Technology Committee, Vince Turcotte, 35 participants from the APAC digital assets ecosystem gathered at the 23rd Asia...
OMS market: Vendors focusing on strategic sales pitch
Research suggests that an apparently limited interest in changing order management systems (OMS) on buy-side trading desks has been overcome by OMS vendors at...
What’s big, green and keeps traders busy?
Bond issuance sizes in the ESG space are growing, and the average size of the deals are growing too. The proportion of benchmark-sized deals...
SIX tokenises corporate bonds to expand investor base
SIX Digital Exchange (SDX) has completed its pilot project tokenising corporate debt instruments in collaboration with Banque Pictet.
Fractional quantities of the tokenised assets were...
