Yieldbroker partners with IHS Markit to support Australian bond issuance
Data, analytics and trading solutions provider IHS Markit is collaborating with Yieldbroker, the electronic trading platform for Australian and New Zealand debt securities and...
SMBC joins DirectBooks
DirectBooks, the capital markets consortium founded to make bond issuance more efficient, has seen SMBC Nikko Securities America, a member of SMBC Group, join...
Update: How big is portfolio trading?
In November 2020, we assessed the prevailing research on the size of portfolio trading in the corporate bond market. A new report from Coalition...
What’s big, green and keeps traders busy?
Bond issuance sizes in the ESG space are growing, and the average size of the deals are growing too. The proportion of benchmark-sized deals...
Sherpa Edge goes live
Outsourced trading provider, Sherpa Edge Trading, has gone live with Reception and Transmission of Order (RTO) services out of its offices in Copenhagen, Denmark.
The...
European bond traders struggle with block trades and counterparties
Analysis of the European and US corporate bond markets by Coalition Greenwich has found that block trades and counterparties are a far greater concern...
Tradeweb poaches Dan Cleaves to lead Dealerweb CLOB
Market operator Tradeweb has appointed Dan Cleaves, the former CEO of Brokertec Americas, as a managing director in its Dealerweb wholesale unit.
He said, “The...
Tradeweb reports ADV in June up 35% year-on-year
Tradeweb has reported that its total trading volume for June 2021 reached US$23.1 trillion. Average daily volume (ADV) for the month was US$1.05 trillion,...
Cowen boosts fixed income outsourced trading team with two hires
Cowen has expanded its fixed income outsourced trading team with two senior hires, Vincent Governara and Chris Taliercio. Both traders bring over 15 years’...
Tangible returns from bond trade automation
Adoption of automated trading continues apace across several bond markets and within different grades of instrument. Gareth Coltman, global head of automation at MarketAxess,...