How e-trading connectivity has been fragmented by sanctions
Sanctions on the Russian regime, on associated firms and on individuals have restricted legal access to some instruments and counterparties, yet portfolio managers may...
BMO expands etrading for Institutions and broker dealers to EMEA
BMO Financial Group has expanded its electronic trading footprint in Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA), launching its electronic trading services for institutions and...
EXCLUSIVE: TradingScreen bought by Francisco Partners
Execution management system (EMS) provider TradingScreen has been bought by private equity firm Francisco Partners for an undisclosed sum. The deal brings to a...
S&P Global Market Intelligence boosts muni market coverage
S&P Global Market Intelligence’s integrated market intelligence platform now covers almost 6 million securities in the municipal market.
The firm has added 4.6 million municipal...
SIX tokenises corporate bonds to expand investor base
SIX Digital Exchange (SDX) has completed its pilot project tokenising corporate debt instruments in collaboration with Banque Pictet.
Fractional quantities of the tokenised assets were...
Rules & Ratings: Credit ratings up, outlook down for Greek government
Moody’s Ratings has upgraded the Greek Government’s long-term local currency (LC) and foreign currency (FC) issuer ratings from Ba1 to Baa3. However, the country’s...
Fed breaks silence on HFT in treasuries
Having opened the US government debt market to high-frequency trading, authorities now push market participants to “be good citizens”. Dan Barnes reports.
The Federal Reserve...
Bloomberg’s open chat API creates exciting but costly opportunities
Bloomberg’s cross-firm chatbot API service can save companies time as they share information. But they are also expensive, and present firms with a fresh...
BloombergGPT launches
Bloomberg has released a research paper detailing the development of BloombergGPT, a new large-scale generative artificial intelligence (AI) model.
This large language model (LLM)...
MarketAxess Q1 revenue up 36%; reports on US spreads
Bond market operator MarketAxess has seen revenues for the first quarter of 2020 increase 36% to US$169 million, up on the US$124.5 million it...
What banks’ primary success can tell us about their priorities in 2022
When looking at the revenues of investment banks in Q3 2021, using Greenwich Coalition data, we can see that secondary market trading in fixed...
Mitsubishi HC Capital UK raises €60m on TreasurySpring with first sustainable fixed-term fund
Mitsubishi HC Capital UK, a provider of consumer lending, asset finance and vehicle leasing, has borrowed more than €60 million on TreasurySpring’s platform by...
