NatWest, Loop Capital, and TD Securities join DirectBooks
NatWest, Loop Capital and TD Securities have joined the DirectBooks bond issuance platform. The recent additions increase the total number of underwriters on DirectBooks...
FILS 2022: Could ESMA ban RFQs?
The future of the request for quote (RFQ) protocol was being challenged both on and off stage at the Fixed Income Leaders’ Summit in...
FILS 2022: Dealers address Project Amber, streaming prices and increasing competitiveness
Market making has not fully matched buy-side demand in 2022, with trading desks voicing ongoing concern about bidless markets in some areas of fixed...
FILS 2022: Big themes this year
The innovation day at the Fixed Income Leaders Summits (FILS) on Tuesday is held under the Chatham House rule preventing direct reporting of what...
FILS 2022: How ‘Giltmageddon’ could hit LDI specialists and drive new regulation
Traders at the Fixed Income Leaders Summits (FILS) largely reported that bond markets were quiet this week, with high yield and emerging bond markets...
FILS 2022: 7IM selects Bloomberg AIM and PORT to streamline trade workflow
Investment manager 7IM has adopted Bloomberg’s AIM order management system (OMS), to support the firm’s focus on achieving an efficient target operating model to...
FILS 2022: Itaú selects Genesis Global for new trade automation
Genesis Global, the low-code application development platform for financial markets organisations, will provide a new trade automation and client portal system for Itaú Securities.
The...
FILS 2022: Meeting in the eye of tempestuous markets
The Fixed Income Leaders’ Summit is convening in Nice in the midst of a turbulent market, driven by a combination of rampant inflation, government...
Glimpse Markets and Wave Labs partner to deliver analytics dashboard
Buy-side bond data sharing service Glimpse Markets and Wave Labs, the execution management system provider, have formed a strategic partnership whereby Wave Labs will...
In pictures: Government bond market liquidity costs spike
Both volume and bid-ask spreads have blown out in the UK government bond (Gilt) market, as seen in the latest TraX data from MarketAxess, which...
