MARKET NEWS
T. Rowe Price deploys Genesis’ primary bond custom tool
T. Rowe Price has gone live with Genesis global’s primary bond issuance (PBI) tool. It aims to standardise how its fixed income teams manage...
BoE issues stablecoin regulation proposals
The Bank of England has issued a proposed regulatory regime for sterling-denominated systemic stablecoins, revising two elements of policy proposed in a 2023 discussion...
Scott swaps JP Morgan for Bloomberg
Ryan Scott has joined Bloomberg’s rates electronic sales team. He is based in New York.
Last year, the firm released a report suggesting that automated...
Fenwick joins HSBC
David Fenwick has joined HSBC as an investment grade credit sales trader, swapping the buy side for the sell side.
HSBC reported US$6.7 billion in...
MarketAxess outperforms competition in October through slower month
US electronic credit trading slowed down in October. FINRA’s TRACE tape recorded combined US investment-grade (IG) and high-yield (HY) average daily volume (ADV) at...
Bidding for nothing – what do you get for 68p?
Court documents filed by Ediphy Analytics explain that it planned to offer consolidated bond tapes for free – before it was knocked out of...
FEATURES
Credit futures see OI and ADV increase more than sevenfold YoY
The adoption of credit futures as a mainstream credit trading vehicle is broadening across venues and currencies: US$ 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...
PROFILES
RESEARCH
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...
Subscriber
Credit Spotlight
RISK & RETURN
FROM THE ARCHIVES
Review of 2023 Trading: Trade sizes falling – in parts…
Looking back at this year’s trading activity, through analysis of MarketAxess Trax data and TRACE for US markets, we can see clear patterns emerging...
Less distressed debt
The risks of default in high yield credit are one reason cited for reduced sell-side trading activity in the asset class. However, while the...
Control is the best defence
By Chris Roberts | 29 May 2024
With a growing level of scrutiny coming from European Regulatory bodies about the quality of data reporting, firms...
Middleton named global head of FI trading at Morgan Stanley IM
Dwayne Middleton has been promoted to global head of fixed income trading, nearly a decade into his career at Morgan Stanley Investment Management (MSIM)....
FILS USA 2022: Focus on liquidity
As fixed income market participants eye the threat of a further back-up in yields, liquidity sourcing is being reassessed.
While technology has greatly advanced the...
KfW issues first benchmark bond via Deutsche Börse’s digital D7 platform
German bank KfW has issued its first high-volume benchmark bond as a central register security according to the German electronic securities act (eWpG) with...
European Market Choice Awards: Bridging the gap
Reaching across buy- and sell-side has won popular support for TS Imagine in connecting front offices.
TS Imagine has won the votes of traders on...
RBC Capital Markets onboards Harry Williams
Harry Williams has joined RBC Capital Markets as a credit trader. He is based in London.
RBC Capital Markets reported CAD 12 billion in revenue...
Rules & Ratings: Rating agencies hit with US$49 million in SEC fines
The SEC has charged six nationally recognised statistical rating organisations (NRSROs) with failures to maintain and preserve electronic communications. In total, more than US$49...
BlackRock veteran Mitchelson to join Bloomberg
Multiple sources have confirmed that Rob Mitchelson, formerly Europe, Middle East, Africa (EMEA) head of fixed income and FX trading at BlackRock, is to...
Insights & Analysis: Investors’ Gilt-y pleasure
Markets have turned positive on UK government bonds, which rallied across the curve following the release of unemployment data indicating a higher rate and...
“A fixed income price is not a fact. A fixed income price is an...
David LaRusso is the head of fixed income trading at Dimensional Fund Advisors, and has just celebrated his 25th anniversary at the firm. The...
