MARKET NEWS
Citadel Securities, Deutsche Bank and more back FairCT
Ediphy has announced five major investors for fairCT business, provider of the European consolidated tape for bonds.
Barclays, Citadel Securities, Deutsche Bank, TP ICAP and...
ICE sees record OI in Euribor options
The Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) recorded record open interest in Euribor options on 1 June.
The exchange reported that open interest in ICE Euribor futures and...
CA veteran joins Citi
Citi has appointed Florian Eichert as a managing director on the sovereign, supranational and agency (SSA) and covered bond trading team.
He is based in...
Bloomberg boosts European portfolio trading credit services
Bloomberg has expanded its spread-to-benchmark quoting and trading for credit portfolio trades, supporting euro- and sterling-denominated trades.
Spread-to-benchmark quoting allows market participants to evaluate and...
Last Chance to Register: Regulatory Review Webinar
Join for a live webinar examining how surveillance decisions are reviewed after alerts are closed and what firms are increasingly expected to justify months...
Taylor leads AI strategy at MUFG
Stu Taylor has been promoted to head of global markets AI strategy (ex-Japan) at MUFG.
He is based in London.
Commenting on the role via LinkedIn,...
FEATURES
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...
Eurex sees lit credit future liquidity migrate to dark
The Bloomberg / Eurex credit futures conference in mid-January 2026 had all seats taken and attendees standing in the aisles. That bursting enthusiasm was...
Human battles machine in JGB market
Participants say electronic trading of Japanese government bonds has reached an inflection point, but others counter that the death of voice trading has been...
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...
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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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BondAuction breaks into liability management
BondAuction has expanded its platform capabilities to cover liability management.
“If an issuer would like to buy back its bonds, it can announce that to...
TradingScreen integrates Bondcliq data
TradingScreen, the order and execution management system (OEMS) provider, has partnered and integrated with TradingScreen,, the corporate bond market system. The integration of BondCliQ’s...
SEC fines ten broker-dealers US$289m for recordkeeping violations
Ten sell-side firms have been fined a combined US$289 million by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for violating recordkeeping provisions.
The...
J.P. Morgan: Vikas Gupta and Cynthia Sin Win on EM rates electronification
EM Rates electronification accelerates despite structural challenges.
Emerging market rates electronification is accelerating, despite ongoing challenges linked to market fragmentation, data inconsistencies, and price discovery...
First Sentier connects Flowlinx via FlexTrade to access EM liquidity data
Asset manager First Sentier Investors has connected to Flowlinx liquidity via execution and order management system (E/OMS) provider FlexTrade.
Flowlinx is designed to simplify block...
Keep an eye on bank issuance
Bank bond issuance is expected to pick up this year according to research by Morgan Stanley analysts. With deposits proving less attractive as a...
Trumid triumphs in tricky April credit e-trading market
US electronic credit trading volumes fell off a cliff in April for Tradeweb and MarketAxess, with average daily volumes (ADV) falling by 14.5% and...
Exclusive: MarketAxess trials new mid-point session protocol Mid-X
On Tuesday, MarketAxess ran the first session of a new mid-point matching tool, Mid-X, with over 50 participants. The new trading protocol is session-based...
ICMA fills in the blanks on MiFID II agreement
A new article written by the regulatory team at the International Capital Markets Association (ICMA), has shed light on details in the agreed text...
ETS scraps out-of-hours model, Ediphy drops legal case
The UK bond consolidated tape saga appears to be cooling down, as Etrading Software irons out its support services and Ediphy backs down from...
ION LatentZero connected to UBS Bond Port for buy-side
Trading, analytics, and risk management system provider, ION Markets, has connected its LatentZero buy-side clients to the UBS Bond Port trading platform. Bond Port...
IMTC: The Future of Investment Advice & Solutions: Top takeaways from the 2022 MMI...
By Blake Lynch, Head of Sales and Alex Signorile, Sales Executive at IMTC.
We recently attended the Money Management Institute (MMI) conference in Nashville, Tennessee,...
