Trumid sees record volumes
Credit trading platform Trumid, announced a record month of trading volume in November on the company’s electronic bond trading platform. During November, Trumid’s single-day...
2020: Finding positives in a tough year
While 2020 was a tough year on many levels, Lee Olesky, CEO of Tradeweb, has tried to pick out the positives from a market...
BNP Paribas streamlines pre-trade client workflow with ipushpull
BNP Paribas is streamlining its manual workflow for non-standard, complex trades, to support its global asset manager client base.
Using technology developed by ipushpull, a...
Coalition Greenwich: Electronic bond trading rises in US IG, declines in high yield
The use of electronic trading in corporate bonds will continue to increase, Coalition Greenwich’s March Data Spotlight has stated.
Electronic trading activity grew faster than...
MarketAxess executes first portfolio trade for tax-exempt munis
MarketAxess has executed the platform’s first ever portfolio trade for tax-exempt municipal bonds.
The portfolio trade was executed earlier this month between a large bank...
Big names out at BGC
Interdealer broker BGC Partners has made a wave of job cuts, as announced in April, which combined with recent departures has removed several heads...
What effect could retail flow have on credit markets?
Retail investment in equity markets has had two major effects on market conditions; one is an increasing engagement in direct trading into the market,...
LSEG names Charlie Walker London Stock Exchange deputy CEO
The London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) has named Charlie Walker as deputy CEO of the London Stock Exchange (LSE).
Walker, who will also join the...
Barclays now streaming prices into MarketAxess Live Markets
Barclays has committed to become a dedicated market maker and is actively contributing streaming prices for US investment grade corporate bonds to the MarketAxess...
The hidden liquidity in IBHY and IBIG futures
Real-money asset managers are finding that Cboe’s cash-settled corporate bond index futures – IBHY and IBIG futures – allow them to track ETFs in...
Equity venues are dating websites; credit venues are bars
Equity venues are dating apps – you have to be a member to use the central limit order book (CLOB), and it will match...
Buy-side firms warn on herding effect of QE
By Aulia Beg.
Portfolio managers have expressed concern about the ‘herding’ behaviour within the investment community, resulting from central banks’ quantitative easing (QE) programmes.
In a...
