MARKET NEWS
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...
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...
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...
PROFILES
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
On The DESK: Trading and Technology collaborating for the future
Erik Tumasz and Josh Grodin of Wellington Management on honing trillion-dollar Wellington Management’s technology-driven edge in trading.
How do you structure your trading desks?
Josh Grodin:...
Investment in derivatives post-trade set to soar
A new study by analyst firm, Acuiti, released in a whitepaper entitled The Growing Need to Invest in Derivatives Post-Trade, sponsored by Broadridge Financial...
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Eurex’s EU bonds futures go live
Eurex’s Euro-EU bond futures (FBEUs) are now available for trading.
The instruments, which were first announced in April, provide a physically deliverable futures contract designed...
Mutual funds leveraging futures to increase portfolio risk and yield
US Treasury futures holdings among mutual funds have shot up over the last three years, as they adjust to a “higher for longer” interest...
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Regulation & Market Structure: How the SEC and the Fed will change US bond...
Transparency and structure is coming to the US Treasury and credit markets.
The role of the Fed is changing and consequently the role of other...
Viewpoint: “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend...
Neptune’s COO, Byron Cooper-Fogarty, and head of data science, Ben Cohen, discuss the future of “axes” in the fixed income world.
Abraham Lincoln was a...
US Treasury market change catalysed by proprietary trading firms
Proprietary trading firms are driving change faster than the interdealer brokers, writes David Wigan.
Direct streaming of pricing data is changing the historical client/dealer relationship...
BTIC: Bloomberg terminal users declined in 2016
Spend on market data, analysis and news has topped US$27 billion for the first time according to Burton-Taylor International Consulting’s latest report. The findings...
FCA’s new consultation aims to streamline further capital raising and enhance investor access
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) released on 31 January 2025 a new consultation Paper “CP25/2”, proposing further changes to the Public Offers and Admissions...
The big shocks hitting portfolios in 2022
Portfolio managers have some very large events to consider, along with many more nuanced side-effects.
At the beginning of the year, rising inflation and interest...
Exclusive: New xBK head, Dragan Skoko, discusses BNY Mellon’s new outsourced trading
BNY Mellon has launched a new outsourced trading offering for buy-side institutions globally, including asset managers and asset owners.
The offering by BNY Mellon...
ICE chases Tradeweb in MBS electronic trading
ICE aims to get a bigger pie of the electronic Mortgage Backed Securities (MBS) trading market and introduces a new anonymous Request-for-Quote (RFQ) protocol.
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