ICE: Municipal bonds – reliable pricing for a fragmented market
ICE’s rules-based, transaction-driven approach provides a transparent representation of municipal market movement.
By Patrick Smith, Senior Director, Head of Municipal Evaluations, ICE
The complex and fragmented...
EMCA 2024 WINNER – Instinet Positive Change Visionary
EMCAs – Stacey Parsons, Winner of the Instinet Positive Change, Visionary award, 2024
Stacey Parsons, managing director of capital markets and head of fixed income...
Do regulators understand ‘best execution’ in corporate bond markets?
What is best execution in bond markets?
In fixed income a best execution process matches up trade metrics to the investment parameters.
“Trading is simply how...
Case study: Russell Investments in Search of Liquidity – Open Trading
As a top provider of Execution and Transition Management Service, Russell Investments understands the importance of leveraging cutting-edge tools for best execution.
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What effect could retail flow have on credit markets?
Retail investment in equity markets has had two major effects on market conditions; one is an increasing engagement in direct trading into the market,...
IRS electronification: 20 years in the making
With the 20th anniversary of Tradeweb’s interest rate swaps (IRS) marketplace around the corner, the firm’s head of US institutional Rates, Bhas Nalabothula, looks...
Enhancing the network effect in emerging markets e-trading
The friction of trading across a fragmented emerging market landscape is being drastically cut, says Dan Burke, MarketAxess.
The DESK spoke with Dan Burke, who...
Buy-side desks find favour in credit futures
The expansion of Eurex’s credit futures offering into dollar and multicurrency products promises broader and deeper opportunities for investors.
A keen buy-side appetite for credit...
Agency Broker Hub: Business discontinuity
Business discontinuity: an ongoing threat for financial markets stability
By Lorenzo Bracchi and Monica Moschioni, Market Hub, IMI Corporate & Investment Banking, Intesa Sanpaolo
Financial markets have...
Virtu Financial: Making markets globally
The technology firm stepping into fixed income market making
Virtu Financial outlines its plan to make markets in credit and rates using its scaled global...