Key trends in fixed income trading
By Matt Murphy, T. Rowe Price & Venky Vemparala, FlexTrade
As fixed income trading desks cope with multiple trading protocols, venues, and vast data sets...
Beyond Liquidity: T+1 Testing Begins
DTCC, the US post-trade market infrastructure, formally started the testing program for moving to a shorter settlement cycle on 14 August so market participants...
Emerging markets’ big issues in 2022
According to analysis by CreditSights, there has been a negative total return for credit in emerging markets with the exception of Gulf Cooperation Council...
Market data costs in spotlight under new FCA review
The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has issued a call for input (CFI) to better understand how data and advanced analytics are being accessed...
Bloomberg launches market-driven daily credit risk indicator
Bloomberg is offering its Market-Implied Probability of Default (MIPD) product, a market-driven creditworthiness indicator, to both Enterprise Data and Bloomberg Terminal clients globally. MIPD...
Connecting the primary and secondary credit workflows
With issuance at near record highs in the first week of the year, credit market traders are keen to make more effective use of...
Buy side finds trading on the turn no less challenging
When everyone was selling and no-one was buying liquidity vanished. However, as bond market outflows lessen, and in some cases reverse, many buy-side traders...
Get US high yield portfolios in order over summer
June looked decidedly challenging for US high yield (HY) trading, as mean bid-ask (BA) spreads dislocated from the median, indicating spikes in BA spreads...
MarketAxess re-launches Mid-X in Europe
MarketAxess has relaunched its matching session solution Mid-X in Europe, after simplifying the fee structure.
Mid-X offers daily, fully anonymous, matching sessions at the firm’s...
Glimpse Markets appoints Thorpe as senior sales advisor
Industry veteran Mike Thorpe has been appointed senior sales advisor by Glimpse Markets. Thorpe, who started his career in capital markets with Citi in...
MarketAxess: Blockbusting Part 4 – Block Execution in US HG
In the latest of MarketAxess' Blockbusting series, our research team explores liqiudity profiles of block-sized RFQ trades between $1M- $10M on MarketAxess across a...
Tradeweb processes first electronic iBoxx standardised total return swap trade
Fixed income market operator Tradeweb has completed the first-ever fully electronic standardized total return swap trade based on IHS Markit’s iBoxx USD Liquid High...
