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Correction: Trading Technologies reported revenues
In a previous story Trading Technologies revenues were incorrectly reported. As a private company, Trading Technologies does not report its financials publicly.
The company has...
S&P Global offers private credit risk management service
S&P Global has released a compliance management solution for credit risk management, designed for private credit and collateralised loan obligation (CLO) managers.
The launch coincides...
Yarkova-Valente joins Trading Technologies
Oxana Yarkova-Valente has joined Trading Technologies as a sales executive.
Yarkova-Valente has close to 25 years of industry experience and joins the firm from MTS...
Volumes up, e-trading down in US rates
Average daily notional volumes in US rates jumped 11 percentage points year-on-year (YoY) in October, reaching US$989 billion. Volatility was down by 40%, with...
Coalition Greenwich: “E-trading in HY is only just getting started”
Average daily notional volumes were up 4% year-on-year (YoY) to US$51 billion in US credit this October, with average daily trade sizes rising by...
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Credit futures see OI and ADV increase more than sevenfold YoY
The adoption of credit futures as a mainstream credit trading vehicle is broadening across venues and currencies: US$ iBoxx total return based futures traded...
Trade size growth undercuts European bond market ‘equitification’
Since 2023 European corporate bond markets have seen trades size grow, as trading platforms report increasing volumes
“If we break down electronic trading growth in European...
The pretenders, and kingmakers, to the bond throne
Dealers are backing several new trading platforms who are fighting major incumbents for market share.
In the bond market, the trading platform landscape has been...
Declaration of dependence
US president to oversee financial institution regulation amid deregulation drive.
Executive orders signed by US president, Donald Trump, have given him oversight of all US...
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Bond traders predict data science/AI use explosion in 2026
The DESK’s Corporate Bond Liquidity Access Survey, supported by LTX, finds trading desks are on the cusp of change.
Buy-side traders see 2026 as a turning...
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Argentina’s battle for control
Argentina’s bond markets have been notoriously challenging for investors. Twenty years after the country underwent a major debt restructuring, and just five years after...
B2Scan closes down
B2Scan, the pre-trade liquidity data platform for bond markets, has shut down after eight years. The CEO and founder of B2Scan, Frédéric Semour, was...
The Book: Equity-linked note issuance on the rise in APAC
Convertible and exchangeable bond issuance in APAC is on track for a record-breaking year, Citi has noted.
Convertible bonds allow holders to convert their bond...
Major concerns raised about repo
By Flora McFarlane.
Several buy-side practitioners have voiced warnings about the outlook for the ‘broken’ repo market, warning that European regulators needed to address the...
Beyond Liquidity: The Promised Land
Primary bond market technology has delivered a steady stream of notable enhancements in recent years, with a small number of platforms and niche service...
Mark Tinworth joins RBC Capital Markets
RBC Capital Markets has appointed Mark Tinworth as EMEA head of sales for global markets.
Based in London, he reports to Sian Hurrell, head of...
Overbond launches buy-side model for spotting mispriced bonds
Overbond has added a ‘rich-cheap’ model to its suite of AI fixed income analytics, designed to help buy-side desks generate systematic returns. Combining both...
FILS USA: How can high yield be traded efficiently in a risk off environment?
Banks are stepping back from taking risk in high yield trading. Trading in a risk-off environment in normal circumstances can be challenging as spreads...
Could the Twitter hangover really hurt credit liquidity?
Banks’ support for market making is tied to the bonds they carry on their books, and the cost that has for their balance sheets....
Paolo Buscaglia swaps UniCredit for Santander
Santander Corporate & Investment Banking has appointed Paolo Buscaglia as co-head of European government bond (EGB) and sovereign, supranational and agency debt (SSA) trading....
IDX: Clearing up clearing in Europe
With volatility a constant market presence in recent years, and expected to be for the foreseeable future, regulators need to ensure that firms can...
ICE Bonds receives approval for expansion in Canada
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the market operator and data/technology provider has received approval to operate its ICE TMC fixed income trading platform in all Canadian...
