Dealers face crunch on platform trading costs
As bid-ask spreads tighten and fees rise, dealers question making markets in credit.
It does not take a quant to understand that tighter bid-ask spreads...
Best practice in credit TCA measures
The need to optimise execution quality is increased as buy-side firms seek to optimise all-to-all trading, and therefore price making, in credit. Transaction cost...
Meet the consolidated tape contenders
Europe’s development of a consolidated tape for trading data now has clear front runners, and benefits.
Three firms have confirmed they will compete to be...
MarketAxess industry viewpoint
Comparing portfolio trading and list RFQ TCA
By Gio Accurso, Grant Lowensohn and Jessica Hung, MarketAxess
Highlights and objectives
The MarketAxess Research team investigates any key...
Improved auto-quoting tops wishlist for corporate bond investors
Improved auto-quoting tops the list of what corporate bond investors would like to see more of from their liquidity providers. That is according to...
What is behind the falling cost of IG liquidity?
The bid-ask spreads in credit trading across the Europe and US have fallen dramatically in the first three weeks of 2024, relative to the...
TT to acquire TCA provider Abel Noser
Trading Technologies (TT) has moved into the multi-asset data and analytics space with an agreement to acquire Abel Noser Solutions (ANS), a provider of...
7 Chord and Bonds.com partner to deliver executable pricing data
Bonds.com and predictive pricing and analytics firm 7 Chord have partnered to combine bonds.com’s executable pre-trade pricing data with BondDroid AI, 7 Chord's real-time...
Flow Traders: Algos supported 20% of bond flows in 2022
A new white paper from exchange traded fund (ETF) market maker, Flow Traders, estimates that in the past two to three years, credit algos...
Why ICSD data could revitalise Europe’s pre-trade bond analytics
Two international securities depositaries (ICSDs), Euroclear and – as of last week – Clearstream, are rolling out access to data for trade settlements in...
