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Bidding for nothing – what do you get for 68p?
Court documents filed by Ediphy Analytics explain that it planned to offer consolidated bond tapes for free – before it was knocked out of...
Ediphy slams FCA for CTP auction chaos
Ediphy Analytics alleges that the Financial Conduct Authority has breached its own rules in selecting Etrading Software as the UK bond consolidated tape provider.
"The...
IOSCO sets pre-hedging guard rails, amid calls for ban
The International Organisation of Securities Commissions (IOSCO), has published its final report on pre-hedging, amid call for the practice to be banned, and allegations...
Yield Book data made available through Finbourne’s LUSID
LSEG’s Yield Book fixed income data and analytics will be available in Finbourne Technology’s Liberated Unified Secure Investment Data-machine (LUSID) data management platform from...
MarketAxess launches FI opening and closing auctions
MarketAxess is launching opening and closing auctions for US credit “in the coming weeks”.
Opening and closing auctions have long been available in equity and...
Chainlink collaborates with Tradeweb, UBS
Chainlink is capitalising on the industry’s growing demand for tokenisation and on-chain operations, announcing a data partnership with Tradeweb and completing the first live...
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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Aparajita Dalal: Derivative Exchange Notifications
At a moment’s notice
Tracking exchange notifications that affect listed derivatives reference data is laborious. Overlooking notices is easily done and can be costly. Aparajita...
The barbell effect of analogue and digital trading
Buy-side firms were able to express their trading ideas into the market effectively during market volatility in April demonstrating that flexibility of communication and...
CME, DTCC boost cross-margining services
DTCC and CME Group have expanded their cross-margining initiative for clients of CME and the Government Securities Division (GSD) of DTCC's Fixed Income Clearing...
Europe’s liquidity rules are holding up… for now
New guidance on fund liquidity has followed redemption concerns in European equity and bond funds, writes Lynn Strongin-Dodds.
The risk that funds are unable to...
Eric Morrow joins Apollo Global Management
Eric Morrow has been named chief operations officer (COO) of trading at Apollo Global Management, an asset manager with US$550 billion of assets under...
Colm Murtagh: The Long Goodbye
Dollar Swaps Markets Bid Farewell to LIBOR.
In July, it was linear swaps. In November, non-linear. And next week, on December 13, the further expansion...
What EM trade sizes tell us about market evolution
While issuance of emerging markets bonds beat the same period in 2023 by a third, secondary trading is far more choppy, with a stepped...
Mizuho senior departs for Deutsche Bank
Amedeo Scippacercola has joined Deutsche Bank as a European government bond trader. He is based in London.
Within Deutsche Bank’s investment bank division, fixed income...
ESMA publishes its first liquidity assessment for bonds
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published today its first liquidity assessment for bonds subject to the pre- and post-trade requirements of...
Rates : Fully automatic? : Dan Barnes
Market volatility may shift rates back to voice in 2019
If predicted volatility pushes firms towards voice trading next year, rates traders will suffer from...
Origination: Lockheed Martin issues US$2bn after major Q2 earnings hit
Lockheed Martin Corporation (LMT) has issued US$2 billion in senior unsecured notes.
The issuance follows a 79% year-on-year loss for the second quarter of 2025,...
European Markets Choice Awards 2022 – The Winners
Last night, Markets Media held its first in person European Markets Choice Awards event in London to celebrate the accomplishment of everyone who works...
