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Ediphy rolls out consolidated consolidated tape
Ediphy has launched an aggregated consolidated bond tape, bringing together UK, EU and US post-trade fixed income data.
The service combines the UK bond tape,...
Tradeweb brings spread trading to European credit portfolios
Tradeweb has launched spread trading for European credit portfolios.
Institutional investors are able to negotiate pricing in data points relative to a government bond benchmark,...
Yap and Chua join Citi
Anthony Yap and Maria Chua have joined Citi’s APAC debt capital market (DCM) team.
Yap will serve as head of leveraged finance for Australia and...
UK bond tape launches with 98% coverage
The UK’s consolidated tape for bonds is live, with 98% contributor coverage by notional trade value.
Etrading Software CEO Sassan Danesh told The DESK, “It’s...
MarketAxess launches enhanced consolidated tape
MarketAxess has launched a consolidated tape for bond markets, a few days before the official UK tape goes live.
The TraX Tape will provide a...
Fernandes swaps JP Morgan for BNP Paribas
Francisca Fernandes has joined BNP Paribas as vice president of electronic fixed income sales. She is based in London.
BNP Paribas reported €1.6 billion in...
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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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Virtu Financial forms consortium to expand RFQ-hub
Virtu Financial, the market maker, broker and financial services technology provider, has formed formation of RFQ-hub Holdings to support the growth of RFQ-hub, Virtu’s...
SEC committee signals direction for US credit rules
New fixed income committee sees pushback on structural approach to resolving credit market challenges. David Wigan reports.
As European fixed income market participants get their...
Parameta and PeerNova launch ClearConsensus price valuation for OTC derivatives
Parameta Solutions, the data and analytics division of TP ICAP Group, has partnered with PeerNova, a Silicon Valley data analytics and management company, to...
MarketAxess and DirectBooks offer full-lifecycle management
MarketAxess has partnered with DirectBooks, giving mutual clients access to primary issuance information and workflow tools.
The service is expected to go live in Q2.
The...
Fractional exchange BondbloX ‘democratises’ global access to bond markets
BondbloX Bond Exchange (BBX), a fractional bond exchange, has made its platform that tracks and trades bonds available for individual investors in an effort...
Are European exchanges allowed to rival size of US markets?
The European Commission (EC) has opened an in-depth investigation into the proposed acquisition of Refinitiv by the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) under the...
Positive reception of FCA consolidated tape plans keeping pace with Europe
A consultation on plans for a consolidated tape of fixed income prices, announced by the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), has drawn support from...
Optimising execution in Qatari and Kuwaiti bond sell-off
Buy-side traders need to carefully manage order execution when a bond market moves into or out of an index, as the large directional moves...
MTS and Wematch.live launch digital marketplace for interest rate swaps
MTS, the European electronic fixed income platform owned by Euronext, and Wematch, the tech firm that provides buy- and sell-side firms' dealing workflow systems,...
US rates e-trading stabilises
Electronic trading in US rates dropped by five percentage points year-on-year (YoY) but rose by two percentage points month-on-month (MoM), representing 57% of total...
Low issuance volumes may impact the momentum to reform primary markets
Platforms keen to emphasise longer term commitment to electronification and greater automation.
Multiple platforms have been launched to drive increased efficiency in managing bond issuance,...
ESMA corrects SI bond ranking to place BNP Paribas as second in Europe
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has republished its ESMA Annual Statistical Report, now stating that the largest systematic internalisers (SIs) for bond...
