Investment in derivatives post-trade set to soar
A new study by analyst firm, Acuiti, released in a whitepaper entitled The Growing Need to Invest in Derivatives Post-Trade, sponsored by Broadridge Financial...
Yven Scholz promoted at Allianz Global Investors
Yven Scholz has been named head of electronic trading & services at Allianz Global Investors. Prior to his promotion, Scholz was a multi-asset derivatives...
US corporate bond market growth continues upward trend in July
The US corporate bond market in July saw increases across nearly all the metrics tracked by Coalition Greenwich, with average daily notional volume (ADNV)...
Groes to lead consolidated BNP Paribas FICC business line
BNP Paribas has launched a fixed income, currencies and commodities (FICC) global business line, bringing existing fixed income activities under a single umbrella. Arne...
Consolidated tape: Can Europe replicate US market transparency?
Having spotted the need for a consolidated tape in 2005 – when the US already had one – Europe and the UK are so...
Bond platforms report record trading volumes for March
The March 2020 numbers are in for bond trading platforms MarketAxess and Tradeweb and both have seen record results, in a period that has...
SIFMA finds support for shift in benchmarking of 20-year US corporate bonds
The spread for many legacy 20-year US corporate bonds is benchmarked against the 30-year Treasury, but trade body SIFMA has found support for moving...
Refinitiv Lipper Research: Investors looking to reduce interest rate risk
A new report on the first quarter of 2021 from Refinitiv Lipper Research has found that fixed income funds posted a return of negative...
Overbond and Rapid Addition form strategic alliance for bond trading automation
Overbond’s fixed income artificial intelligence (AI) will now offer protocol and system agnostic integration with venues and electronic trading systems used by sell-side and...
TMPG: Better US Treasuries data needed for effective policy
The New York Federal Reserve’s Treasury Market Practices Group (TMPG) has published a white paper on ‘Data Availability and Transparency in the US Treasury...
ESMA reports improving credit risk but Overbond warns on liquidity risk
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has released its latest ‘Trends, Risks and Vulnerabilities’ (TRV) report, finding that fixed income markets continued to...
Not fighting the Fed on high yield flow
High yield bonds have seen electronic trading in the US increase, with liquidity enhanced by the Federal Reserve’s announcement on 9 April that it...
