Industry viewpoint

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...

TransFICC: Technology in the spotlight

RFQ growth and DORA compel firms to focus on system capacity, high performance, complex workflow automation, and disaster recovery (DR). The fixed income market structure...

J.P. Morgan: Offering new operational benefits for bond funds through DLT

The bank launches Digital Bond Issuances to better support investors as markets move to a distributed ledger model across assets. As J.P. Morgan announces the...

LSEG: The outlook for muni bonds (video)

Global Trading editor Laurie McAughtry (on behalf of The Desk) was delighted to sit down with Domenic Vonella, director of US municipal bonds at...

The credit futures market

By Andreas McGrath, Fixed Income ETF Trader, Susquehanna International Group How did Susquehanna become involved in this market? When Eurex first approached Susquehanna in 2021...

Credit Spotlight: How clear can pre-trade get?

Pre-trade transparency is a nirvana for over-the-counter markets, particularly corporate bond trading, which lack the publicly displayed prices of the exchange-traded market. Unless it...

The credit trading processes you really should have automated by now…

Automation has historically been highly challenging in corporate bond markets for several reasons, but traders say some parts of the workflow ‘ought’ to be...