Tag: International Capital Markets Association (ICMA)
ICMA says execution and order management systems are not trading venues
The International Capital Markets Association (ICMA) has responded to the European Securities and Market Authority (ESMA) consultation into the ‘trading venue perimeter’ by arguing...
ICMA recommends ECB follows Federal Reserve and SNB policies
The International Capital Markets Association (ICMA) has written to the European Central Bank (ECB) with a “concern that rising dysfunction in the market...
TransFICC launches fixed income consolidated tape pilot
TransFICC, the specialist provider of low-latency connectivity and workflow services for Fixed Income and Derivatives Markets, has launched a new initiative to develop a...
Ediphy’s consolidated tape initiative sees positive response from the market
Chris Murphy, CEO and co-founder of Ediphy, says his fintech business will seek to provide a consolidated tape for European bond markets, using a...
How the ICMA got firm on bond pricing
Buy-side traders have long decried the lack of executable price in bond markets. For the best part of a decade the electrification of these...
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...
US Treasuries market picks up the electronic pace due to Covid-19
Covid-19 has triggered a “dramatic” shift in US Treasuries, the world’s largest bond market towards electronic execution from traditional voice trading, according to a...
Buy side wants new tools in primary market tsunami
Several buy-side traders report new primary bond market tools could come online this year in the US, with dealer consortium DirectBooks expected to step...
ICMA highlights key ‘dysfunctional’ areas of credit market
The International Capital Markets Association has reported on March’s sell-off and the impact on the corporate bond market, noting that “by March 18, considered...
Governance key to EU consolidated bond tape’s success
The International Capital Markets Association (ICMA) has published a report outlining the possible routes to delivering a successful consolidated tape of price data of...