MARKET NEWS
UK bond CTP suspension lifted
Etrading Software can finally sign the UK bond consolidated tape provider contract, with Ediphy consenting to the High Court suspension being lifted.
CEO Chris Murphy...
New Issue IQ, Boltzbit partner on primary market automation
Bond issuance fintech New Issue IQ has partnered with AI firm Boltzbit to improve its processing operations, seeking to automate a traditionally manual area...
CME Group outage boosts FMX’s case, BofA says
CME Group’s market outages were resolved at 8:20 CT on 28 November, after a less-than-restful Thanksgiving for the organisation. But while it’s back to...
Collins leaves Trumid for MarketAxess
Gav Collins has swapped Trumid for MarketAxess, being named head of the transformation office.
Based in London, Collins will work on the firm’s long-term strategic...
BNP Paribas loses Puget to BlueCrest
Francois Puget has joined fixed income macro trading firm BlueCrest Capital Management as a senior portfolio manager after almost 30 years with BNP Paribas.
Based...
CME markets down as data centre overheats
Markets are currently halted at CME Group due to an overheating data centre.
The Globex futures and options market, cash FX EBS market and direct...
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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IHS Markit partners with Adroit to deliver multi-asset execution via thinkFolio
Investment services, risk and data management giant, IHS Markit, has partnered with Adroit Trading Technologies to give access to its multi-asset execution management capabilities...
Rising rates hit high yield availability
Despite some optimistic outlooks on bond issuance in 2023, high yield bonds are clearly seeing a decline in Europe, based on data from the...
FILS 2024: Could large number models help AI transform finance?
The enormous potential of artificial intelligence to change the way investment firms invest and trade in markets was explored at the Fixed Income Leaders...
CFTC Chair Behnam to Step Down Amid Regulatory Transition
Rostin Behnam, chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, has announced his departure after steering the agency through a transformative period in digital and...
Transficc partners with Quinsol for their pricing engine
Quinsol Software, a startup innovator in fixed-income trading solutions, has announced a strategic partnership with TransFICC.
This collaboration aims to integrate Quinsol's Bond Price Hub...
China lays path to greater liquidity
Better risk and liquidity management is on the cards for the buy side as repo and derivatives are promoted by authorities and market infrastructure...
Research: ETFs worsen fixed income liquidity in a crisis
An academic paper has argued that fixed income exchange traded funds (ETFs) “improve bond liquidity in general, but worsen it in periods of large...
Viewpoint : Automated trading : Gherardo Lenti Capoduri
How automated can low touch get?
Gherardo Lenti Capoduri, Head of Market Hub, Banca IMI speaks to The DESK.
How are trading algos being applied in fixed...
Intelligent application of artificial intelligence in credit
A picture has emerged of the future credit desk for buy-side traders, from discussions at the Fixed Income Leaders’ Summit in Washington DC last...
Rosa joins RBC
Adriano Rosa has joined RBC Capital Markets as a high yield (HY) credit trader. He is based in London.
RBC Capital Markets represents a quarter...
Tradeweb executes first bilateral multi-asset package list trade
Tradeweb has completed the first fully electronic bilateral multi-asset package list trade, made between Citi and the Pension Insurance Corporation (PIC).
The service’s launch follows...
Houlihan Lokey appoints Clinton Miyazono to capital markets group
Houlihan Lokey has named Clinton Miyazono managing director in its capital markets group. Miyazono will support the firm’s credit capabilities out of the firm’s...
