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...
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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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Simone Santiago leaves Morgan Stanley
Simone Santiago has left Morgan Stanley, the company has confirmed.
Santiago has been managing director at the firm since January 2022.
Prior to this, she spent...
Cboe Global Markets: Newer, more diverse liquidity in EM markets
A new set of emerging market credit futures is expanding the range of trading and investment support for specialist and multi-asset EM investors.
Nick Godec...
Sterling expands to cover fixed income securities
Order management, risk and margin technology provider Sterling Trading Tech will support fixed income securities by the end of Q2 2024, it has announced.
This...
Investor Demand: Apollo outlines four scenarios for investors
Torsten Sløk, Apollo Global Management’s chief economist, has outlined four key scenarios that investors need to consider potential outcomes of the current trade war...
OpenDoor launches all-to-all platform in US Treasury market
OpenDoor Securities has launched a trading platform focussed on the less liquid segments of the US Treasury bond market. Nearly three dozen firms representing...
Intercontinental Exchange consolidates bond business under new broker-dealer
Intercontinental Exchange is consolidating its ICE BondPoint, TMC Bonds and ICE Credit Trade businesses under a single management team and banner, ICE Bonds, which...
September: US rates ADNV up 35% YoY amid wider uncertainty
In September, overall trading in US rates rose 1% year-over-year, standing at 59% of volumes, while the average daily notional volume stood at US$988...
Who can make money, market making Euro credit?
Looking at the average bid-ask spreads of European credit trades, and correlating them with the average trade sizes for the year to date based...
BGC reportedly shuts Lucera LUMEAlfa; preps FMX for soft launch
According to sources, BGC Partners has shuttered its pre-trade data business, Lucera LUMEAlfa, closing the final chapter on pre-trade data pioneer Algomi, and aligning...
Euronext: Cross fertilisation of European bond markets
Euronext’s expanding fixed income offering is creating opportunities for trading that have never existed before.
Alessia Baccalaro, Head of Group Fixed Income Retail Markets at...
Review of 2023 Trading: Trade sizes falling – in parts…
Looking back at this year’s trading activity, through analysis of MarketAxess Trax data and TRACE for US markets, we can see clear patterns emerging...
CanDeal, TMX Datalinx develop new Canadian loan benchmark
CanDeal Benchmark Solutions has collaborated with TMX Datalinx on a new “robust benchmark” – Term CORRA (Canadian Overnight Repo Rate Average) 1- and 3-month...
