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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...
Clearstream offers tokenised issuance in D7 expansion
Deutsche Borse’s Clearstream has launched a tokenised securities platform, designed to handle issuance and management.
D7 DLT facilitates the issuance of central securities depository regulation...
Singhal swaps SMBC for Mizuho
Shrey Singhal has joined Mizuho as director of USD investment grade credit trading.
Based in New York, Singhal specialises in insurance and asset managers and...
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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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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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Plan to replace Dodd-Frank formally introduced in House of Representatives
The chairman of the Financial Services Committee in the US House of Representatives, Jeb Hensarling, has formally introduced the Financial CHOICE Act, a proposed...
Tradeweb announces JSCC clearing for MTF and SEF Yen swaps
Multi-asset market operator, Tradeweb has reported that institutional clients executing Japanese Yen swaps on its multilateral trading facilities (MTFs) and swap execution facilities (SEFs)...
Overbond launches buy-side model for spotting mispriced bonds
Overbond has added a ‘rich-cheap’ model to its suite of AI fixed income analytics, designed to help buy-side desks generate systematic returns. Combining both...
Charles River and DirectBooks collaborate on primary bond issuance
Charles River Development, a State Street Company, is collaborating with DirectBooks to support investment firms to manage primary issuance workflows in the Charles River...
The Book: Ukraine executes first govie switch auction
The Ministry of Finance of Ukraine has completed the country’s first government bond switch auction in partnership with the National Bank of Ukraine.
Switch auctions...
The beginning of the end (of liquidity provision)?
Bid ask spreads are widening in US investment grade credit, according to MarketAxess’s CP+ data, which may signal the traditional end-of-year withdrawal of dealer...
China lays path to greater liquidity
Better risk and liquidity management is on the cards for the buy side as repo and derivatives are promoted by authorities and market infrastructure...
Sourcing and onboarding clean data remains major buyside challenge
Sourcing data that is cleaned, validated and ready to use from vendors remains a challenge for nearly 70% of fund managers in a new...
Etrading Software to provide UK bond CT
Etrading Software has been awarded the consolidated tape provider (CTP) contract in the UK.
The £4.8 million contract (£4 million excluding VAT) is estimated to...
SEC committee signals direction for US credit rules
New fixed income committee sees pushback on structural approach to resolving credit market challenges. David Wigan reports.
As European fixed income market participants get their...
FILS in Barcelona: How will trading technology bridge the adoption gap?
On 9 October 2023 the UK’s rules on the trading venue perimeter – drawing a line between desktop technology and regulated trading venues –...
Video interview with Rhian Ravenscroft
Rhian Ravenscroft, Senior Legal Counsel at MarketAxess is asked about her race to the top by Markets Media's, senior writer Shanny Basar.
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