QUODD and S&P GMI expand partnership with data solution
Market data-on-demand provider QUODD has added bond data from S&P Global Market Intelligence into its back-office platform, QX Digital.
QX Digital provides a user-specific experience,...
Will primary market tools fragment new issuance instead of standardising it?
Research by The DESK has found that buy-side traders have adopted a range of primary market tools to help them increase their efficiency at...
BoE amends collateral eligibility criteria for regulated covered bonds
The Bank of England is to amend the collateral eligibility criteria for regulated covered bonds in the Bank’s Sterling Monetary Framework.
From 1 September, to...
Tradeweb files for IPO
Market operator Tradeweb Markets, has filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for a proposed initial public...
Coalition Greenwich: Buy-side desk budgets hit US$2 million per year
The average buy-side trading desk budget is just over $2 million annually, inclusive of both technology and compensation, with roughly one-third allocated to technology...
FCA appoints UK Secondary Markets Advisory Committee members
The FCA has appointed members of the UK secondary markets advisory committee for June 2024 to June 2026.
The committee supports the FCA’s work in...
Money markets begin to tail off as rates fall
Reviewing the second quarter activity in primary markets and fund flows, we see the total notional outstanding in US fixed income totalled US$45.3 trillion,...
Viewpoint: Mike Googe & Ravi Sawhney, Bloomberg
Fixed income TCA: The state of the art.
Scratching the surface of buy-side transaction cost analysis use reveals demand for very tailored metrics, as Mike...
valantic integrates Overbond’s pricing and liquidity scoring into dealer FICC trading systems
Overbond’s COBI-Pricing LIVE has been integrated into valantic FSA ’s electronic fixed income, currency and commodity (eFICC) trading systems. COBI-Pricing LIVE is a customisable...
European credit – get it while it’s hot!
Bid ask spreads in European investment grade (IG) credit trading have fallen substantially over the past month, based on data from MarketAxess’s CP+ composite...
Altaz Dagha joins BrokerTec
Altaz Dagha joined BrokerTec on 1 June 2022 as senior director, BrokerTec Products.
Dagha is based in Singapore and reports to Robert Siddons, senior director,...
Natalie Lowenstein swaps MarketAxess for TP ICAP
TP ICAP has appointed Natalie Lowenstein as global head of rates product.
Lowenstein has more than 25 years of industry experience, and joins TP ICAP...
