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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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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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Middleton named global head of FI trading at Morgan Stanley IM
Dwayne Middleton has been promoted to global head of fixed income trading, nearly a decade into his career at Morgan Stanley Investment Management (MSIM)....
Why US and European exchanges face very different landscapes
While European authorities try to push more trading back onto stock exchanges, which have entered a period of consolidation, US regulators are angling for...
Jefferies: Fixed income ETFs drive transformation of the market
The impact of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) on the fixed income market cannot be overstated, agreed speakers at Jefferies’ ‘New Investing Frontiers – Explore the...
Exclusive: Analysing the battle for US e-Trading in February
The highly competitive corporate bond market saw average daily volumes converge in the US across electronic trading venues in February. The DESK has exclusively...
UBS integrates Bond Port with iQbonds to increase counterparty diversity
UBS has integrated its Bond Port trading venue with iQbonds, the bond trading platform of software provider valantic.
iQbonds is heavily used in the German...
ESMA dials up bond CTP selection
ESMA has told several Bond CTP providers hopefuls that they have been invited to participate in the second step of competitive procedure with negotiation.
The...
Effecting change without disruption
LSEG has built a suite of services that can be used with minimal friction and maximise the capacity to trade effectively.
As clients face a...
Karen Karniol-Tambour named co-chief investment officer at Bridgewater
Nir Bar Dea, co-chief executive officer at Bridgewater has confirmed that Karen Karniol-Tambour is now co-chief investment officer of the firm, joining Bob Prince...
Pimco says Fed’s new repo facility should ease future stress
Asset manager Pimco said the US Federal Reserve’s creation of a permanent standing repo facility (SRF) will help develop more resilient funding markets, although...
CIOs assess stormy markets ahead
Managers can expect an even worse start to 2020 than they endured in 2019, unless credit markets see an adjustment, according to Chris Iggo,...
MeTheMoneyShow – Episode 19
Dan Barnes speaks with Lynn StronginDodds about the shifting European exchange landscape.
Me The Money Show Episode 19 from Markets Media on Vimeo.
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Dogfight in credit e-trading as platforms see double figure growth
Average daily volumes (ADV) for Tradeweb’s cash rates trading were US$455 billion for the month of July, the company reported, with overall government bond...
