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Yarkova-Valente joins Trading Technologies
Oxana Yarkova-Valente has joined Trading Technologies as a sales executive.
Trading Technologies reported £768,455 in profits for the financial year 2024 – up 462% year...
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$51 billion in US credit this October, with average daily trade sizes rising by...
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Muni market booms, e-trading crawls
Despite rising trading activity in the US municipal bond market, electronic trading remains a small component of the market, up just 0.6 percentage points...
Ex-MTS exec joins Propellant Digital
Propellant Digital has named Caroline Wohleber as a senior within the Continental Europe sales team.
In the Paris-based role, Wohleber is responsible for client acquisition...
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Credit futures see OI and ADV increase more than sevenfold YoY
The adoption of credit futures as a mainstream credit trading vehicle is broadening across venues and currencies: US$ 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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James Rubinstein new Americas head of execution and quantitative services at Liquidnet
Agency broker and block trading specialist, Liquidnet, has appointed James Rubinstein as head of execution and quantitative services (EQS), Americas.
Based in New York, Rubinstein...
The greatest surprises in bond trading of the last decade
The DESK asked interviewees from its ‘On The DESK’ profile interviews of the last ten years to assess the most surprising changes they had...
ICE taps CanDeal for intraday pricing
ICE has partnered with CanDeal to provide intraday price updates and bond analytics data for the Canadian fixed income market.
Intraday and end-of-day reference prices...
Banque de Luxembourg integrates MarketAxess’ Axess IQ order and execution workflow
Banque de Luxembourg, the private banking and wealth management group, has gone live with Axess IQ, the order and execution workflow system by bond...
FILS 2022: Itaú selects Genesis Global for new trade automation
Genesis Global, the low-code application development platform for financial markets organisations, will provide a new trade automation and client portal system for Itaú Securities.
The...
Supply, gross
Debt markets are looking bloated in Europe, with a 33% increase in European non-financial investment grade issuance year-on-year (YoY) year-to-date and a 31% increase...
Groupe BPCE receives first Euronext European Defence Bond label
Groupe BPCE has issued a €750 million senior unsecured five-year bond, the first to be assigned the Euronext European Defence Bond label.
Proceeds will be...
Aligning the pre-trade credit liquidity picture and the execution goal
Pre-trade data and market colour are imperative for buy-side traders looking to achieve best execution in corporate bond markets. Understanding how that applies to...
European Commission pushes consolidated tape for primary and secondary bond market
The European Commission (EC) has set out a wide ranging process to “stimulate the openness, strength and resilience of the EU's economic and financial...
LTX and TransFICC partner for enhanced onboarding
Broadridge’s fixed income trading platform LTX has partnered with e-trading technology provider TransFICC to improve the venue onboarding process.
Through the partnership, corporate bond dealers...
Pre-Trade data strategy: Optimizing protocol selection in European Credit
By Chris Egan & Aria Pattinson-Spiers: A decision that clients often face is which trading route to take—a high touch or low touch approach....
Front-to-back OMS providers change strategy
Dan Barnes investigates why big OMS providers are partnering with smaller players.
In 2018, following the acquisition of Charles River Development by State Street, it seemed...
