MARKET NEWS
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...
US retail goes big on directly-held bonds
Retail investors are leaning back into bonds, according to a recent Coalition Greenwich report – and are increasingly owning them directly, rather than through...
Doriane Geyler Rojas joins Ostrum AM
Doriane Geyler Rojas has been appointed business manager and project lead within the "direction des gestions" at Ostrum Asset Management.
Ostrum AM says it manages...
“Carelessness, inattention, inadequate safeguards”: FCA hits back at Ediphy
The FCA has disputed Ediphy’s allegations that its consolidated tape provider e-auction process experienced a technical fault, and did not register its weighted average...
S&P Global acquires With Intelligence
S&P Global has acquired private markets data, insights and analytics firm With Intelligence in a US$1.8 billion deal.
The company announced in October that it...
FEATURES
Credit futures see OI and ADV increase more than sevenfold YoY
The adoption of credit futures as a mainstream credit trading vehicle is broadening across venues and currencies: US$ 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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Low-code specialist boosted by Bank of America, BNY Mellon and Citi $20 million investment
Genesis Global, the low-code application development platform purpose-built for financial markets organizations, has won US$20 million in new investments from Bank of America, BNY...
OTCX registers as MTF as UK trading venue perimeter rules begin
Derivatives trading venue OTCX has been registered as a multilateral trading facility (MTF) in the UK, in the week that the UK’s Financial Conduct...
Greenwich: RFQ cuts convertible bond spreads in half
New research by analyst firm Greenwich Associates has found that the request for quote (RFQ) protocol is cutting the spreads made by the most...
US Treasuries: Coalition Greenwich update on falling interdealer volume and BIS warning
US markets have had an eventful summer according to analysis by Coalition Greenwich, which saw an average daily notional volume (ADNV) for US Treasuries...
2023: US govies down 6.3%, corporates up 5.4% YoY
US Treasury issuance was estimated to be almost US$4 trillion across 2023 and Q1 2024, a 305.7% increase on the historical average, with Treasuries...
Falling emerging market liquidity costs reversed with Fed concerns
Traders in hard currency fixed income emerging markets have seen a decline in the costs of liquidity this year, according to data from MarketAxess’s...
FIMSAC releases agenda for today’s meeting
By Pia Hecher.
The Fixed Income Market Structure Advisory Committee (FIMSAC) has published the agenda for its 29 October meeting. FIMSAC subcommittees will update on...
Liquidnet: Listed derivatives volumes grew nearly 46% globally in 2021
A new report published by market operator Liquidnet has identified a 45.8% growth in listed derivatives trading volumes in 2021 over the previous year.
The...
Ending technology asymmetry in primary markets for bonds
Asset managers are playing catchup in primary markets technology after banks invested heavily in automated book building, says Rahul Kambli, senior product owner at...
The DESK BENCHmark 2017: Mid-sized buy-side have diverse trading
Mid-sized asset managers champion electronic trading - The DESK’s BENCHmark research has found mid-sized firms use electronic trading and a wider range of brokers than...
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TS Imagine reports surge in fixed income electronification on TradeSmart platform
First quarter data shows strong growth in automation, protocol usage, and trading volumes on TS fixed income platform.
TS Imagine has published new data from...
European credit trades size up 15% year on year Q3
European credit trades keep getting larger. The notional blended trade size for Investment grade and high yield European credit was €786k in September 2025...
