MARKET NEWS
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$51 billion in US credit this October, with average daily trade sizes rising by...
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Muni market booms, e-trading crawls
Despite rising trading activity in the US municipal bond market, electronic trading remains a small component of the market, up just 0.6 percentage points...
Ex-MTS exec joins Propellant Digital
Propellant Digital has named Caroline Wohleber as a senior within the Continental Europe sales team.
In the Paris-based role, Wohleber is responsible for client acquisition...
FCA to submit bond tape legal defence this week
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has asked the High Court to lift its suspension on the bond consolidated tape contract award, and intends to submit its defence to Ediphy’s legal challenge by the end...
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Credit futures see OI and ADV increase more than sevenfold YoY
The adoption of credit futures as a mainstream credit trading vehicle is broadening across venues and currencies: US$ 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...
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
MarketAxess: New trading protocols are expanding, not cannibalising, liquidity
MarketAxess has reported its second highest level of quarterly revenue and credit trading volume, as well as a record total trading volume in Q1...
Investors flock to credit futures amid credit spread concerns
CME Group has reported a sharp increase in credit futures contracts, noting nine consecutive days of increases in active, unsettled contracts.
The US credit futures...
Press release: Markets Media and Trader TV announce joint content partnership
Markets Media, the global publishing house for capital markets, and Trader TV, the leading video content producer for institutional traders, have announced an agreement...
Trading outsourcer Tourmaline hires three senior executives
Outsourced trading solutions firm Tourmaline Partners has added Alex Goodman and Matt Sindell as managing directors, and Darren Mazzuca has joined as director of...
ION integrates fixed income solutions into XTP Execution
ION has integrated its fixed income solutions with its XTP Execution service, expanding client access to futures markets for trading and market data.
ION’s XTP...
FIX Trading Community releases guidelines on commission unbundling
By Flora McFarlane.
A new report has set out practices to follow for pre- and post-trade representation of commission steps across all asset classes.
With under...
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SEC classifies HFT liquidity providers as “dealers”
US markets regulator, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), has adopted two rules that require market participants who engage in certain dealer roles, in...
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...
Ex-Etrading Software exec joins Propellant
Etrading Software’s former chief strategy officer has resurfaced at Propellant Digital, joining the firm as a senior advisor for business development and strategy,
Elizabeth Brooks...
ICE promotes veteran Christopher Edmonds
Christopher Edmonds has been promoted to president, fixed income and data services, at Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), based out of Georgia, US.
Edmonds has been with...
MeTheMoneyShow – Episode 23 (M&A: Liquidnet & BIDS Trading)
Dan Barnes and Terry Flanagan discuss the recent M&A activity over Liquidnet and BIDS Trading.
Me The Money Show Episode 23 from Markets Media on...
Smaller proportion of US Treasuries e-traded than previously estimated
Levels of e-trading in US treasuries in dealer-to-dealer (D2D) and dealer-to-client (D2C) markets have come into sharper focus thanks to data collected by FINRA...
