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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...
Ediphy slams FCA for CTP auction chaos
Ediphy Analytics alleges that the Financial Conduct Authority has breached its own rules in selecting Etrading Software as the UK bond consolidated tape provider.
"The...
IOSCO sets pre-hedging guard rails, amid calls for ban
The International Organisation of Securities Commissions (IOSCO), has published its final report on pre-hedging, amid call for the practice to be banned, and allegations...
Yield Book data made available through Finbourne’s LUSID
LSEG’s Yield Book fixed income data and analytics will be available in Finbourne Technology’s Liberated Unified Secure Investment Data-machine (LUSID) data management platform from...
MarketAxess launches FI opening and closing auctions
MarketAxess is launching opening and closing auctions for US credit “in the coming weeks”.
Opening and closing auctions have long been available in equity and...
Chainlink collaborates with Tradeweb, UBS
Chainlink is capitalising on the industry’s growing demand for tokenisation and on-chain operations, announcing a data partnership with Tradeweb and completing the first live...
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...
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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...
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John Miller to join First Eagle Investments
First Eagle Investments has established a new High Yield Municipal Credit team. John Miller will join First Eagle on 2 January 2024, as head...
UBS’s Slade announces major changes in DCM team
David Slade, global co-head of leveraged and debt capital markets (LDCM) at UBS has announced in an internal memo, seen by The DESK, that...
Yusuke Tanaka promoted at MUFG Trust
MUFG Trust has appointed Yusuke Tanaka as deputy general manager of its head office in Tokyo.
Tanaka has more than 23 years of industry experience,...
BBVA, BME and IDB issue regulated bond in Spain registered with blockchain
BME, through Iberclear, BBVA and the Interamerican Development Bank (IDB), have completed what they claim is the first bond issuance in Spain listed in...
High yield market makers comfortable with risk
European bond traders are seeing average trade sizes expanding in September while bid ask spreads lower to the bottom end of their range as...
When volatility improves credit liquidity
Credit market liquidity has been positive in the first half of 2025, despite the high levels of volatility.
There are several dynamics which might be...
Trade sizes rise in Europe, fall in US
The end of 2024 indicates is seeing quite different changes to trade sizes in the corporate bond markets of Europe and the US, according...
US banks boosted trading assets ahead of new lenient stress test results
Easier 2025 stress test assumptions and friendlier accumulated other comprehensive income (AOCI) treatment have freed capital for American investment banks’ fixed income desks; US...
Yield Book data made available through Finbourne’s LUSID
LSEG’s Yield Book fixed income data and analytics will be available in Finbourne Technology’s Liberated Unified Secure Investment Data-machine (LUSID) data management platform from...
FILS in Barcelona: What blockchain can do for bond markets
What progress is being made in the world of blockchain, and how is DLT technology transforming the world of digital bonds, crypto trading, and...
S&P Global Market Intelligence: Bonding with style investing: value and momentum in corporate bonds
Style investing is not just for stock investors. As ‘smart beta’ becomes more popular in other asset classes, investors want to know, “What’s been...
European Markets Choice Award Winner: Best in AI – LTX
First mover advantage in a wave of change can be enormous, as LTX has demonstrated with BondGPT
Bond trading platform LTX has launched into an...
