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Correction: Trading Technologies reported revenues
In a previous story Trading Technologies revenues were incorrectly reported. As a private company, Trading Technologies does not report its financials publicly.
The company has...
S&P Global offers private credit risk management service
S&P Global has released a compliance management solution for credit risk management, designed for private credit and collateralised loan obligation (CLO) managers.
The launch coincides...
Yarkova-Valente joins Trading Technologies
Oxana Yarkova-Valente has joined Trading Technologies as a sales executive.
Yarkova-Valente has close to 25 years of industry experience and joins the firm from MTS...
Volumes up, e-trading down in US rates
Average daily notional volumes in US rates jumped 11 percentage points year-on-year (YoY) in October, reaching US$989 billion. Volatility was down by 40%, with...
Coalition Greenwich: “E-trading in HY is only just getting started”
Average daily notional volumes were up 4% year-on-year (YoY) to US$51 billion in US credit this October, with average daily trade sizes rising by...
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Credit futures see OI and ADV increase more than sevenfold YoY
The adoption of credit futures as a mainstream credit trading vehicle is broadening across venues and currencies: US$ 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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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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TMX Vettafi acquires Credit Suisse bond indices from UBS
TMX VettaFi, a subsidiary of TMX Group, acquires Credit Suisse’s bond indices from UBS. The acquired bond index franchise encompasses indices covering government, credit,...
Ratings & Analysis: S&P Global taps Snowflake connectivity for private markets investors
Private markets investors are now able to input data from S&P Global’s iLEVEL portfolio monitoring platform directly into their Snowflake environments.
Investors will be able...
CME Group completes migration of BrokerTec trading platform to CME Globex
Market operator CME Group has migrated the US Treasuries trading and US repo functions of BrokerTec business to its CME Globex platform. This follows...
Foley joins Tradeweb in Dubai
Charlie Foley has joined Tradeweb as a director and emerging markets credit specialist, based in Dubai.
The Dubai office was opened last year in a...
EWIFA: Breaking the glass ceiling
It is almost time for this year’s European Women in Finance Awards, and we at Markets Media are looking forward to seeing 2024’s nominees...
Cary Eggleston joins Canaccord Genuity Group
Canaccord Genuity Group has appointed Cary Eggleston as head of CEEMEA fixed income sales and trading.
In the London-based role, Eggleston is responsible for the...
Big names out at BGC
Interdealer broker BGC Partners has made a wave of job cuts, as announced in April, which combined with recent departures has removed several heads...
SEC report highlights dealer threat to buy-side allocations in primary markets
US market regulator, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), has reported buy-side firms feel pressured not to publicly speak out about the challenges of...
Pragma launches new algorithmic management system
Pragma, the multi-asset execution technology provider, has released a new generation of Panorama, the firm’s algorithmic management system (AMS).
Panorama 2.0 is designed to provide...
Danske Markets veteran jumps to BGC business development
Bernadette Kelly has joined BGC Group as a business development manager.
Based in London, she will work with the short-term interest rate (STIR) trading teams.
Kelly...
TD Bank joins LTX as liquidity provider
TD Bank has joined AI-powered corporate bond trading platform LTX’s e-trading platform, via its subsidiary TD Securities Automated Trading.
TD Bank will contribute axes, or...
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...
