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
Lead : BENCHmark Survey 2018
The DESK BENCHmark: Volumes down, efficiency up.
Fewer traders are managing greater volumes of trading in rates, while the volume of electronic trading is increasing...
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Making the impossible, possible
Confidence in pricing data supports entirely new ways of trading through multiple trading protocols.
The DESK caught up with Matthew Walters, head of product for...
Viewpoint: Why bond traders are changing their habits
Informed traders are discovering that newer approaches to executing trades are more successful than older, habitual paths.
The DESK spoke with Max Callaghan of MarketAxess...
European Women in Finance : Nandini Sukumar : Finding a voice
Nandini Sukumar, CEO of World Federation of Exchanges talks to Lynn Strongin Dodds about vision, strategy and consensus building.
In the five years since Nandini...
National Australia Bank completes migration to Tradeweb Australia with TransFICC’s One API
National Australia Bank (NAB) has successfully transitioned its trading operations for government bonds and Interest Rate Swaps (IRS) to Tradeweb Australia, utilising TransFICC's One...
US corporate bond market growth continues upward trend in July
The US corporate bond market in July saw increases across nearly all the metrics tracked by Coalition Greenwich, with average daily notional volume (ADNV)...
Credit Market Structure Alliance: The real market agenda
The CMSA, invitation-only event, is setting an agenda based on market professionals’ concerns, and has captured a groundswell of interest.
The DESK: What has been...
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Liquidnet launches new issue bonds from OMS to banks; interoperability will set competition level
Block trading specialist Liquidnet has gone live with a new bond issuance process allowing transmission of buy-side orders in live market deals from order...
FILS in Barcelona: The modernisation of the bond market
A massive modernisation of the bond market is being recognised at the Fixed Income Leaders’ Summit in Barcelona.
Although the event was largely held...
The effect of trade sizes on high yield liquidity costs
Trading in high yield markets across the Atlantic is diverging considerably, with average trade sizes and bid-ask spreads tracking quite different patterns, according to...
Viewpoint: Tapping the expanding universe of credit futures and options
Cboe has launched options on Cboe iBoxx iShares Corporate Bond Index futures, and widened its trading hours to further expand the user base and...
FCA tells asset managers to focus on liquidity risk after finding some firms lacking
The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has told asset managers to increase their focus on liquidity risk, stating gaps in liquidity management could lead...























































