Project Amber: Dealer consortium developing new bond trading venue
A consortium of sell-side firms is developing a trading platform in the fixed income space, which could rival existing venues including Bloomberg, MarketAxess and...
Millennium, Investortools solution to digitise muni market
Fixed income broker-dealer Millennium Advisors and Investortools, a provider of fixed-income software solutions, have partnered to simplify the manually intensive workflow of a typical...
Allianz GI joins Glimpse Markets’ data sharing initiative
Allianz Global Investors, which has US$510 billion in assets under management, has joined Glimpse Markets, an initiative to support buy-side data sharing in the...
Credit Agricole, R. Seelaus & Co. and Siebert Williams Shank join DirectBooks
Credit Agricole Corporate & Investment Bank, R. Seelaus & Co. and Siebert Williams Shank have joined the primary bond market platform operator DirectBooks. The...
Fed breaks silence on HFT in treasuries
Having opened the US government debt market to high-frequency trading, authorities now push market participants to “be good citizens”. Dan Barnes reports.
The Federal Reserve...
JP Morgan veteran poached by Old Orchard Capital Management
Jared Fand has joined New York-based investment management firm Old Orchard Capital Management as a trader, leaving JP Morgan after more than a decade...
Daniel Collins swaps gold for rates at Aurel BGC
Daniel Collins has joined Aurel BGC to head up its futures and options (F&O) rates team in Dubai, a month after winning a gold...
Ediphy, industry participants launch consolidated tape, fairCT
Ediphy has partnered with a number of firms to launch fairCT, a collaborative consolidated tape initiative designed to enhance transparency, liquidity and participation in...
TS Imagine launches cross-asset investment and trading platform for hedge funds
TS Imagine the trading, portfolio, and risk management platform provider, has launched TS One, a cross-asset class, software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform, designed for investing...
The inaugural European Markets Choice Awards – shortlist
Best Execution and The DESK are delighted to announce the inaugural European Markets Choice Awards sponsored by Instinet and Tradeweb.
The Awards recognise excellence and...
Tradeweb launches enhanced RFQ functionality for credit markets
Tradeweb has launched an enhanced functionality for request-for-quote (RFQ) trading in US credit markets. RFQ Edge deploys Tradeweb’s advanced portfolio trading analytics to its...
James Rubinstein new Americas head of execution and quantitative services at Liquidnet
Agency broker and block trading specialist, Liquidnet, has appointed James Rubinstein as head of execution and quantitative services (EQS), Americas.
Based in New York, Rubinstein...
