MARKET NEWS
Cboe’s credit futures activity and OI leapfrogs CME and Eurex in November
In November, Cboe’s US dollar iBoxx iShares credit futures set new records with US$455 million in average daily volume (ADV) and US$1.95 billion in...
Jefferies increases credit focus with Hildene acquisition
Jefferies has acquired 50% interest in Hildene Holding Company, parent company of credit-focused Hildene Capital Management and its affiliates.
Hildene Capital Management holds more than...
Lord Abbett invests in IMTC
IMTC has closed a US$12 million Series A funding round, with Lord Abbett joining its ranks of investors.
The round was led by fintech-focused venture...
Simpler bond liquidity assessments diverge on either side of the Channel
British and European authorities are actively aiming to simplify bond liquidity and transparency regimes, but divergent reporting deferral rules for rates and credit, as...
Justesen joins Muzinich
Jakob Justesen has joined Muzinich as a fixed income trader. He is based in London.
Privately owned investment firm Muzinich specialises in public and private...
FIM Partners appoints emerging market debt trader
FIM Partners has hired Nicholas Nellis as a portfolio manager and trader focused on emerging-market debt.
He joins the London and Dubai-based investment manager after...
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Credit futures see OI and ADV increase more than sevenfold YoY
The adoption of credit futures as a mainstream credit trading vehicle is broadening across venues and currencies: US$ 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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Major firms rally around software standardisation
Major firms rally around software standardisation
The new OpenFin operating system, designed for use in finance houses, has gained considerable support for an initiative to...
Dave Antonelli Joins IMTC from BlackRock
Fixed income technology provider IMTC has appointed Dave Antonelli as a strategic account executive within its sales team.
Antonelli has more than two decades of...
Liquidnet sees surge in e-trading activity, ‘record-breaking’ week for Europe’s primary market
Liquidnet has reported a record-breaking week for electronic new issues trading for the week commencing 8 January. Records were broken in terms of volumes,...
Opinion: Competition, not regulation, will make better bond markets
European credit trading has historically seen levels of electronic trading of around 50% of total corporate credit trading, while the US market has historically...
Hidden regulatory risk in CSDR
An apparently back-office focused rule, the Central Securities Depositories Regulation (CSDR), could have a serious impact on bond market liquidity, when it comes into...
New senior trader at Baillie Gifford
James Li has been appointed senior investment trader at Baillie Gifford in Hong Kong. Li was most recently head of Asian Dealing at Baring...
GAM Investments onboards Bloomberg to improve risk and portfolio management workflows
GAM Investments has adopted an integrated suite of Bloomberg buy-side workflow solutions in a drive to streamline risk and portfolio management across the enterprise....
Rules & Ratings: Credit ratings up, outlook down for Greek government
Moody’s Ratings has upgraded the Greek Government’s long-term local currency (LC) and foreign currency (FC) issuer ratings from Ba1 to Baa3. However, the country’s...
NNIP sees three areas of opportunity under moderate rate rise
By Flora McFarlane.
With the Fed expected to announce a third interest rate hike in December, and European counterparts likely to follow suit, investors have...
Just 23% of buy-side firms confident in preparedness for MiFID II
By Flora McFarlane.
A new report by block-trading specialist Liquidnet says that MiFID II will drive automation in trading, but firms face many complexities and...
FILS Amsterdam: Traders are fighting on several fronts
By Dan Barnes.
Traders are still fighting for better data and transparency – in the right places – at FILS Amsterdam 2018, but the elephant...
Tradeweb completes electronic swaption trade
Tradeweb has completed the first fully electronic request-for-market (RFM) swaption package trade on its Swap Execution Facility (TW SEF).
Since the inaugural trade was executed...
