Coalition: Sell-side FICC productivity levels rocketed in Q1
Research by analyst firm Coalition has found investment banking revenues reaching a five-year high in the first quarter of 2020, while headcount dropped significantly,...
AXA IM confirms it is offering outsourced trading
AXA Investment Managers has confirmed it has begun to offer outsourced trading to smaller firms.
“Due to the squeezing of margins and the need for...
Eaton named CEO at digital bond platform Nivaura
Capital markets fintech Nivaura has appointed Scott Eaton as its new chief executive officer. Eaton brings three decades of experience in leadership roles in...
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...
Is US investment grade market-making starting to fray?
In US credit, mean bid/ask spreads are skewing upwards from the median, indicating that a greater proportion of larger spreads are in some cases...
Evidence of trading efficiency from electronification
This week we look at the growth of electronic trading in the US fixed income markets, and the potential it holds to reduce time...
Technology: Educating data
Can better pre-trade data really unlock liquidity in frozen fixed income markets?
If buy and sell-side bond traders are to see real benefits from the...
Results Summary: Q2 sees cautious bounce, but poor asset performance pressures profits
Revenues in Q2 have started to inch up at the major investment banks, despite less than stellar fixed income and equities results.
Looking at the...
CME: Rising open interest in credit futures signals confidence in corporates
CME Group has seen a rapid rise in Open Interest (OI) for Bloomberg Credit Futures.
In the past two months, the number of these futures...
Bloomberg forces SEC to provide cost analysis of primary issuance database
Bloomberg has had its case for the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), to provide an analysis of the costs for a primary bond...
Trading Technologies acquires AxeTrading
Trading Technologies, the capital markets technology platform provider, has acquired London-based AxeTrading, provider of fixed income trading solutions.
The acquisition marks a broadening of TT’s...
Refinitiv puts Tick History data on Google Cloud
Refinitiv has launched its Tick History dataset on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), letting customers access, query and analyse Refinitiv’s extensive archive of pricing and...
