MARKET NEWS
US rates e-trading flourishes in low volatility
Electronic trading in US rates was up two percentage points year-on-year (YoY) and three percentage points month-on-month (MoM) in June, representing 56% of the...
Nearly half of US credit e-traded in June
Electronic trading is breaking out of stagnation in US credit, with Coalition Greenwich predicting that high yield (HY) e-trading will soon hit its highest...
Merali leads rates e-trading at Bloomberg
Arif Merali has joined Bloomberg as global head of rates electronic trading at Bloomberg.
He is based in London.
Nicholas Bean is global head of Bloomberg...
Hastings joins Nomura AM
Richard Hastings has joined Nomura Asset Management as a fixed income client portfolio manager. He is based in London.
As on 31 March 2026, Nomura...
Dimon warns of downturn as fixed income revenues falter
Fixed income trading revenues fell for most US banks in the second quarter, with JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon warning that the strong environment...
SpaceX seeks bridge loan relief with mega bond issuance
SpaceX’s US$25 billion bond issuance, the first since its IPO on 12 June, was the largest corporate issuance of June – and surpassed sub-sovereign...
FEATURES
BofA’s Sonali Theisen: Digital Assets Boost Fixed Income Efficiency
Digital assets have the potential to fundamentally reshape institutional markets via 24/7 trading, near-instant settlement, lower capital costs, and programmable infrastructure. As this evolution...
Acadian’s Michael Doros on the future of systematic credit trading
As credit markets become increasingly electronic, systematic managers are gaining new opportunities to scale research, improve execution, and optimize portfolios in real time. Traders...
Invesco: Kaizen and the art of trading
Running one of the leanest teams on the street, Ray Uy’s traders amplify their firm’s investment ideas by combining deep relationships, cutting edge technologies...
The accelerating boat to China: A faster route for traders
China offers investors a wealth of opportunity, with the caveat that markets are not fully open. Where the authorities are cautious about changes to market...
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RESEARCH
Trading Intentions Survey: Data and protocol innovation are the battlegrounds for...
The 2026 Trading Intentions Survey has found that data is the most hotly-contested field in supporting corporate bond trading today, while analysis of trading...
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FILS 2022: 7IM selects Bloomberg AIM and PORT to streamline trade workflow
Investment manager 7IM has adopted Bloomberg’s AIM order management system (OMS), to support the firm’s focus on achieving an efficient target operating model to...
MarketAxess reports record electronic trading volumes for January
By Flora McFarlane.
MarketAxess, electronic trading platform for fixed income securities, has reported that January was a record month for daily and monthly trading volumes,...
Von Specht joins Citadel
Antonia von Specht has joined Citadel as a credit trader after almost a decade at Morgan Stanley.
She is based in London.
As of 2025, Citadel...
KfW taps Boerse Stuttgart Digital for digital bond blockchain infrastructure
Boerse Stuttgart Digital, an infrastructure provider for cryptocurrencies and digital assets in Europe, now provides the technical infrastructure for KfW, for its new blockchain-based...
Liquidnet: Connectivity is key for efficient trading
By Vineet Naik.
Liquidnet’s head of fixed income, Constantinos Antoniades, has emphasised the importance for connectivity between front office systems and trading venues as he...
FCA fines three broker firms £4.7 million market abuse failures
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined interdealer brokers BGC Brokers, GFI Brokers and GFI Securities £4,775,200 for failing to ensure they had appropriate...
Investment in derivatives post-trade set to soar
A new study by analyst firm, Acuiti, released in a whitepaper entitled The Growing Need to Invest in Derivatives Post-Trade, sponsored by Broadridge Financial...
ING’s AI is smarter at pricing bonds
By Flora McFarlane.
ING has launched Katana, a new artificially intelligent (AI) bond trading tool which uses predictive analytics to help price trades for clients....
Slow-moving regulation hindering EMIR 3 preparation, industry says
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published its regulatory technical standards (RTS) for EMIR 3, after market participants expressed frustration that the...
Infront acquires wealth management specialist Assetmax
Financial technology provider Infront is to acquire Assetmax, the Swiss supplier of multi-custody portfolio management, client relationship management and compliance technology
Infront has noted that...
Ben Londergan joins Simplex Trading
Simplex Trading has appointed Ben Londergan as managing director of strategic business development.
In the Chicago-based role, Londergan is responsible for driving the firm’s growth...
ICE taps CanDeal for intraday pricing
ICE has partnered with CanDeal to provide intraday price updates and bond analytics data for the Canadian fixed income market.
Intraday and end-of-day reference prices...
