MARKET NEWS
US credit traders watch volumes, e-trading grow
Average daily notional volumes (ADNV) in US corporate bonds have been rising steadily since 2022, already hitting US$49.8 billion year-to-date. According to asset managers...
Sutherland promoted at Schroders
Neil Sutherland has been promoted to head of US fixed income trading at Schroders.
He is based in New York.
Schroders reported £823.7 billion in assets...
Walls, Sekora take senior FCA roles
Simon Walls’s role as executive director of markets at the FCA has been made permanent, after holding the position on a temporary basis since...
Trumid triumphs in tricky April credit e-trading market
US electronic credit trading volumes fell off a cliff in April for Tradeweb and MarketAxess, with average daily volumes (ADV) falling by 14.5% and...
Parmar promoted at CIBC
Shivani Parmar has been promoted to a repo trading role within CIBC Capital Markets’s global credit financing team.
She is based in London.
In Q1 2026,...
ETS scraps out-of-hours model, Ediphy drops legal case
The UK bond consolidated tape saga appears to be cooling down, as Etrading Software irons out its support services and Ediphy backs down from...
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The accelerating boat to China: A faster route for traders
China offers investors a wealth of opportunity, with the caveat that markets are not fully open. Where the authorities are cautious about changes to market...
Eurex sees lit credit future liquidity migrate to dark
The Bloomberg / Eurex credit futures conference in mid-January 2026 had all seats taken and attendees standing in the aisles. That bursting enthusiasm was...
Human battles machine in JGB market
Participants say electronic trading of Japanese government bonds has reached an inflection point, but others counter that the death of voice trading has been...
Credit futures see OI and ADV increase more than sevenfold YoY
The adoption of credit futures as a mainstream credit trading vehicle is broadening across venues and currencies: US$ 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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FROM THE ARCHIVES
Eurex: Trade it at Eurex
By Davide Masi, Global Product Lead, Credit Derivatives and Leon Von Essen, Product Manager, Credit Derivatives at Eurex
Futurization is the next step in the...
ICE Data Services: Data in Action
Beneath the surface: Visibility is only as good as your data
By David Varano, ICE Data Services Director, Business Development, and Jaimi Goldberg, ICE Data Services Solutions Specialist,...
ICE Bonds and MarketAxess partner for enhanced liquidity
ICE Bonds and MarketAxess are set to connect their liquidity networks in an effort to improve efficiency and liquidity access in municipal and corporate...
FCA fines PwC £15m over failure to report suspected fraud at LCF
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined Big Four consultancy PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) for failing to report to the regulator their belief that London Capital...
How a credit sell-off might unfold…
Someone, somewhere, is cooking the books
In 2007, I explained the risks of cumulative capital market investments to a friend as a series of interconnected...
Viewpoint : Best execution in derivatives : Liam Huxley
Taking the proper steps
The DESK speaks to Liam Huxley, CEO of Cassini Systems about best execution in derivatives.
How well developed is the best execution process...
Imogen Hepsworth joins Federated Hermes as trading desk expansion continues
Federated Hermes has announced the continued growth of its trading desk, with the appointment of Imogen Hepsworth - previously of MarketAxess - as a...
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Platform volumes in May up on 2019 levels
Market operator MarketAxess has seen a monthly trading volume for May 2020 of US$520 billion consisting of $229 billion in credit volume and $291...
Euronext: Cross fertilisation of European bond markets
Euronext’s expanding fixed income offering is creating opportunities for trading that have never existed before.
Alessia Baccalaro, Head of Group Fixed Income Retail Markets at...
European Women in Finance Awards 2021 – The Shortlist
May we first express thanks to all of our readers who made nominations for this year’s awards. After the tribulations of the past year,...
Origination: Investors side-eye Salesforce US$25 billion issuance to fund equity purchase
Salesforce returned to the US investment-grade market on 11 March issuing US$25 billion senior unsecured bonds. Book to build for the various tranches came...
