ICE bolsters fixed income offering as Virtu offloads BondPoint
By Flora McFarlane.
BondPoint, the electronic fixed income securities trading platform, has become the latest addition to Intercontinental Exchange’s fixed income offering.
With the US$400 million...
Bloomberg cracks?
By Josh Weinberger & Dan Barnes.
The famously holistic service has broken out the Instant Bloomberg chat function for non-terminal users, delivering what looks like...
Hermes Investment Management chooses IHS Markit for TCA
By Flora McFarlane.
Hermes Investment Management has chosen IHS Markit’s TCA platform ahead of incoming best execution obligations under MiFID II.
The technology provider’s TCA platform...
JP Morgan chooses Mosaic fixed income data analytics platform
By Flora McFarlane.
In a move to increase the efficiency and efficiency across its FICC sales and trading division, JP Morgan has contracted Mosaic Smart...
Algomi taps bonds held in custody to release liquidity
BNY Mellon and HSBC are each partnering with pre-trade bond data specialist Algomi, to expand corporate bond trading opportunities for their custody clients and...
FIX issues guide for MiFID II reporting of bond trades
By Flora McFarlane.
FIX Trading Community, which sets the messaging standard for trading messages sent between buy-side and sell-side firms, has published the final Recommended...
Corporate Bond E-Trading 3.0: The drivers ahead
As electronic trading in the corporate bond market increases, those platforms and market participants who intend to be at the cutting edge of the...
Fixed income: The unexpected consequences of change
By Mark Goodman, Managing Director, Global Head of Electronic Execution – FX, Rates, Credit & Futures at UBS Investment Bank.
Our age’s fascination with technology...
Greenwich Associates: Dealer fixed income technology draws in buy-side
By Flora McFarlane.
Technology spending by sell-side firms is a key factor to keeping and growing market share, according to a Greenwich Associates Report, entitled:...
Massive buy-side appetite for alternative data as 90% see return on investment
By Flora McFarlane.
Nearly half of asset managers and three-quarters of hedge funds intend to increase spending on alternative data sources in 2018, with 90%...
