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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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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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Trading: Are bond markets broken?
Stressed events – like the gilt market turmoil – are proving too much for the secondary markets to handle.
Behind closed doors, senior traders are...
Qontigo adds CDS and increased factor coverage to credit spread model
Qontigo, the risk, analytics, and index solution provider, has added credit default swaps (CDS) and increased factor coverage to its Axioma Credit Spread Factor...
TSE and Tradeweb respond to investor ETF demand
Tradeweb has connected to the Tokyo Stock Exchange’s (TSE) request-for-quote (RFQ) platform Conneqtor as demand for ETFs jumps up by a third in Asia....
MarketAxess’s 2020 revenues up nearly 35%
Electronic bond market operator, MarketAxess, has reported revenues in 2020 were up 34.8% on 2019 to US$689.1 million, compared to US$511.4 million for the...
Bellamy joins TrinityBridge
James Bellamy has joined TrinityBridge as a multi-asset dealer. He is based in London.
TrinityBridge, formerly known as Close Brothers Asset Management, held £20.4 billion...
Month-end activity in alternative protocols
By Misha Girshfeld, Research Specialist and Grant Lowensohn, Senior Research Analyst at MarketAxess. 25 October, 2022
Highlights
We have seen an average increase of about 11%...
StoneX builds out FCM presence with RJO acquisition
StoneX Group has agreed to acquire futures brokerage and clearing firm RJ O’Brien & Associates (RJO).
RJO generated approximately US$766 million in revenue in 2024,...
Electronic trading for corporate bonds – enhancing efficiency and addressing brokerage costs
By Frank Cerveny, Global Head of Relationship Management, MTS Markets
Electronic trading has been on the rise, driven in large part by automation, greater transparency...
Eurex: OTC interest rate derivatives markets
Eurex Clearing OTC IRD momentum grows, with new participants and new currencies
In this article, Eurex Clearing’s Danny Chart, Global Product Lead for OTC Interest...
Viewpoint : Technology for OFTR securities : Susan Estes
Time to awaken the sleeping giant
Susan Estes, Co-Founder, CEO & President of OpenDoor Securities
The tripling in size of the US Treasuries market over the...
MiFID II: An exercise in risk management
Gherardo Lenti Capoduri, head of Banca IMI’s Market Hub, speaks with The DESK about the capacity of firms on both sides of the street...
Central clearing for bonds?
The lack of dealer liquidity provision during the March 2020 sell-off has triggered several proposals for market structure reform, not least in the US...
