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Muni market booms, e-trading crawls
Despite rising trading activity in the US municipal bond market, electronic trading remains a small component of the market, up just 0.6 percentage points...
Ex-MTS exec joins Propellant Digital
Propellant Digital has named Caroline Wohleber as a senior within the Continental Europe sales team.
In the Paris-based role, Wohleber is responsible for client acquisition...
FCA to submit bond tape legal defence this week
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has asked the High Court to lift its suspension on the bond consolidated tape contract award, and intends to submit its defence to Ediphy’s legal challenge by the end...
Bloomberg boosts Australian bond pricing
Bloomberg has expanded its Australian bond pricing services as the market continues to grow.
Australia is the third largest global securitised products market outside of...
Ahmed leaves Goldman for Balyasny
Wajih Ahmed has swapped Goldman Sachs for Balyasny Asset Management, joining the firm as a macro portfolio manager after more than a decade with...
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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BlackRock’s Rieder: Fed will buy at least $1.5 trillion in Treasuries in 2020
Rick Rieder, BlackRock’s chief investment officer of Global Fixed Income, co-manager of the BlackRock Fixed Income Global Opportunities fund and BGF Global Bond Income...
Propellant.digital secures funding from Volta Ventures
Trading analytics fintech Propellant.digital has secured an undisclosed strategic investment from Volta Ventures.
Co-founded by CEO, Vincent Grandjean, the platform tries to maximise the...
China Focus: The secondary effect of defaults
The bid-ask spread for bonds in China’ property market has expanded by 300% this year, although even more so for Evergrande which increased by...
Liane Fahey joins Tradeweb
Former fixed income trader, Liane Fahey, has joined market operator Tradeweb, from Royal London Asset Management.
In her new role as European credit product...
Reviewing 2022: European credit trading costs have doubled
There have been an enormous number of factors shaking up bond trading this year. From fixed income fundamentals like rapidly rising interest rates from...
Plenary: Tips to be the best trading desk
A sophisticated analysis of trading impact, total cost and the market ecosystem is imperative to the success of a buy-side fixed income trading desk, said...
Tradeweb Reports Record ADV of $2.2 trillion
Tradeweb Markets, a leading, global operator of electronic marketplaces for rates, credit, equities and money markets, reported financial results for the quarter ended September...
European rules misleading investors on trading costs for derivatives
By Pia Hecher.
Derivatives analytics firm OpenGamma found that transaction costs for derivatives may be misrepresented by up to 900% to investors, as a result...
On The DESK: Divide and conquer
The DESK interviews the team delivering continuous management of trading, for the world’s largest collective assets under management.
• Dan Veiner is Co-Head of Global...
Sarah Lambert joins Fidelity Investments
Fidelity Investments has appointed Sarah Lambert as a senior municipal trader. She is based in Boston.
Lambert has more than a decade of industry experience...
MeTheMoneyShow: Robinhood IPO; US Treasury Trading Issues
In this podcast Dan Barnes speaks with Terry Flanagan about Robinhood's recent IPO and how the retail brokerage app fits in the market ecosystem. They...
BondCliQ corporate bond pre-trade data now available to FactSet users
BondCliQ, a central market system for the OTC corporate bond market, has partnered with FactSet, a global financial digital platform and enterprise solutions provider,...
