LTX migrates corporate bond trading capabilities to AWS
LTX, a subsidiary of Broadridge Financial Solutions, has migrated its corporate bond e-trading platform to Amazon Web Services (AWS). With the completed migration, LTX...
CME Group launches price comparison tool for cash US Treasuries and futures
Derivatives market operator, CME Group, has launched UST Market Profile, a tool to bring together listed Treasury futures and BrokerTec cash treasuries in one...
MarketAxess hit 21.5% of investment grade TRACE volume in Q2
Fixed-income market and infrastructure operator, MarketAxess, has seen revenues for the second quarter of 2020 increase 47% year-on-year (YoY) to US$184.8 million, up from...
TS Imagine launches cross-asset investment and trading platform for hedge funds
TS Imagine the trading, portfolio, and risk management platform provider, has launched TS One, a cross-asset class, software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform, designed for investing...
CME Group to launch 20-Year US treasury bond futures on 7 March
Market operator CME Group will expand its benchmark US Treasury futures and options offering with the addition of 20-Year U.S. Treasury Bond futures on...
Ipreo growth ahead of rival banks Q1 platform launch
By Flora McFarlane and Dan Barnes.
A primary market offering is expected to be launched by a consortium of Citi, Goldman Sachs, and Wells Fargo...
Rules & Ratings: Securitisation reforms “stifling” for CLOs, LMA says
The Loan Market Association (LMA) has struck back at the Financial Stability Board’s (FSB) positive initial assessment of post-2008 securitisation reforms, stating that the...
Cboe: What an institutional trader needs to know about FI ETFs and futures
Where instrument selection can be key, understanding cash and derivatives instruments and the interplay between them is invaluable.
The DESK spoke with Joyce Choi, director...
Why ICSD data could revitalise Europe’s pre-trade bond analytics
Two international securities depositaries (ICSDs), Euroclear and – as of last week – Clearstream, are rolling out access to data for trade settlements in...
Björkman joins Credit Suisse as the head of execution for fixed income
Mikael Björkman has joined Credit Suisse’s private bank as the head of Execution in Fixed Income, joining from UBS’ private bank where he was...
Coalition: Banks’ FICC trading victory in 2020 through remote working and market volatility
Remote working did not hold back sell-side firms in 2020 according to data from analyst firm Coalition. Full year investment banking revenues increased by...
BOB Secondary: US Credit has never had it so good
Liquidity in US credit has improved significantly over the past year, with bid-ask spreads lower than any point in 2022, according to MarketAxess’s CP+...
