MARKET NEWS
FIM Partners appoints emerging market debt trader
FIM Partners has hired Nicholas Nellis as a portfolio manager and trader focused on emerging-market debt.
He joins the London and Dubai-based investment manager after...
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...
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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FROM THE ARCHIVES
Getting the most out of derivatives in credit
Bond investing has become more exciting in the past two years than in the previous ten, with interest rates and central bank activity fire-fighting...
Securities financing : An integrated approach : Lynn Strongin Dodds
Securities lending comes into its own
How buy-side firms are adapting to the margin regime, by Lynn Strongin Dodds.
Regulation, including tighter margin legislation, has focused the buy-side mind...
Does the value-add of data justify the cost to bond traders?
A new report from analyst firm Aite-Novartica has found nearly a third of bond market participants and traders believe it is hard to justify...
FILS in Barcelona: What blockchain can do for bond markets
What progress is being made in the world of blockchain, and how is DLT technology transforming the world of digital bonds, crypto trading, and...
Investor Demand: IG private credit creates ‘attractive entry points’ for investors
Research by Aviva Investors has broken down the illiquidity premia paid via private debt markets, noting that it is improving for investors, even as...
NatWest, Loop Capital, and TD Securities join DirectBooks
NatWest, Loop Capital and TD Securities have joined the DirectBooks bond issuance platform. The recent additions increase the total number of underwriters on DirectBooks...
Derivatives – Viable alternatives
Tougher capital and liquidity constraints for OTC assets are boosting exchange-traded products appeal to the buy side. Anna Reitman reports.
As trading over-the-counter (OTC) for fixed...
Tradeweb launches enhanced RFQ functionality for credit markets
Tradeweb has launched an enhanced functionality for request-for-quote (RFQ) trading in US credit markets. RFQ Edge deploys Tradeweb’s advanced portfolio trading analytics to its...
Regulation Automated Trading – The finishing line
Lynn Strongin Dodds asks whether the CFTC can get the bill passed before the election and what its impact will be if it does.
The...
Brookings Institution: Loose ends in the US Treasury market
A paper published by Nellie Liang, the Miriam K. Carliner senior fellow in Economic Studies at the think tank Brookings Institution and Pat Parkinson,...
Credit Agricole, R. Seelaus & Co. and Siebert Williams Shank join DirectBooks
Credit Agricole Corporate & Investment Bank, R. Seelaus & Co. and Siebert Williams Shank have joined the primary bond market platform operator DirectBooks. The...
AxeTrading and Mosaic Smart Data collaborate on bond market analytics
AxeTrading, the fixed income trading software provider, and Mosaic Smart Data, the real-time capital markets data analytics company, are integrating the AxeTrader execution management...
