The $21.6 trillion question: How many regulators does it take to change a lightbulb?
The US$21.6 trillion US Treasury market is confounded by a lack of transparency and very short-term liquidity provision, according to a new joint staff...
Joseph Stewart named co-head fixed income at SocGen US
Joseph Stewart has started a new position as managing director, co-head of fixed income division for the Americas and head of flow sales for...
FCA warns on permissions needed for MiFID II
By Sobia Hamid.
Firms who need to change their regulatory permissions as a result of MiFID II, in effect from 3 January 2018, are advised...
William Spencer joins MarketAxess from UBS AM
Bill Spencer, formerly head of multi-asset trading for UBS AM in the US, has joined market operator MarketAxess in a newly created global role,...
Symphony partners with Digital Asset to tackle syndicated loans
Market communication and infrastructure provider Symphony is partnering with Digital Asset, a distributed ledger and infrastructure specialist, to create straight through processing (STP) workflows...
ESMA relaxes best ex reporting
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has pushed back reporting of best execution by execution venues and trading firms, which are regulatory requirements...
TradingScreen and Imagine Software to merge; Flatley named CEO of new entity
Private equity firm Francisco Partners, which The DESK revealed has acquired TradingScreen, a provider of trading execution and order management software, is to merge...
March sell-off has driven a longer-term shift towards all-to-all trading
Buyers and sellers were successfully finding opportunities in all-to-all trading as traditional liquidity tightened. Does that herald a permanent shift in behaviour?
All-to-all trading came...
Green bond issuance off to strong start in 2021
As a result of the stronger-than-expected green bond issuance so far in 2021, NN Investment partners has raised its projection for full-year issuance to...
MarketAxess hit 21.5% of investment grade TRACE volume in Q2
Fixed-income market and infrastructure operator, MarketAxess, has seen revenues for the second quarter of 2020 increase 47% year-on-year (YoY) to US$184.8 million, up from...
MarketAxess launches direct access to UBS Bond Port
Users of MarketAxess’ private banking and wealth management service Axess IQ can now route orders directly to UBS Bond Port.
“UBS has been a liquidity...
Securities Financing : India : Lynn Strongin Dodds
India’s lacklustre corporate bond market gets a boost.
Lynn Strongin Dodds looks at government initiatives and stock exchanges efforts to bring the market to life.
The...
