ICE bolsters fixed income offering as Virtu offloads BondPoint
By Flora McFarlane.
BondPoint, the electronic fixed income securities trading platform, has become the latest addition to Intercontinental Exchange’s fixed income offering.
With the US$400 million...
FILS 2024: Building the right data environment
Traders have highlighted the importance of high-quality data for automating trades, noting that real-time liquidity scores and predictive prices are crucial to supporting this...
Insights & Analysis: Central banks’ liquidity retreat heightens funding market risks
The European Central Bank's (ECB) latest briefing paper, 'Managing liquidity in a changing environment,' underscores the critical need for banks to adapt as central...
Industry viewpoint : MTS
Work smarter with MTS Auto Execution – trade automation at your fingertips
Paul O’Brien, Senior Product Manager at MTS Markets
Automation has become so imbedded in our everyday...
Sterling dealers recommend SONIA as alternative to LIBOR
The Bank of England’s Working Group on Sterling Risk-Free Reference Rates – a group of major dealers active in sterling interest rate swap markets – has...
Allianz, BlackRock, T&D Holdings invest in Viridium
Allianz, BlackRock and T&D Holdings have invested in German life insurance consolidation firm Viridium.
The three firms join Generali Financial Holdings and Hannover Re in...
FILS Day 2: Heat around the consolidated bond tape
One of the more positive messages from the second day of the Fixed Income Leaders’ Summit (FILS) was regarding positive progress on the development...
TradeTech 2023: The digitalisation of fixed income
Delegates at TradeTech in Paris heard how the evolution of digital assets is allowing investors to access traditional exposures via new mechanisms.
“At Union Investment,...
ICE connects to Adroit’s EMS
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the data, technology and market infrastructure provider, has connected ICE Bonds with Adroit Trading Technologies, the provider of order and execution...
Darren Bustin joins Schroders
Darren Bustin is to join Schroders Solutions on 1 September 2022, in the newly created role as head of Schroders Solutions Capabilities.
Bustin brings over...
Pre-fight analysis: The weigh-in for CME vs FMX
The launch of FMX, the derivatives exchange chaired by Howard Lutnick, CEO of interdealer broker and services provider BGC Group, sets out a potentially...
Industry viewpoint : Regulation & data : MTS
Securities Financing Transactions Regulation (SFTR)
Q&A with Tom Harry, Regulatory Specialist, MTS
How well prepared are institutions for the impending requirements of SFTR?
Most repo market participants...
















