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Correction: Trading Technologies reported revenues
In a previous story Trading Technologies revenues were incorrectly reported. As a private company, Trading Technologies does not report its financials publicly.
The company has...
S&P Global offers private credit risk management service
S&P Global has released a compliance management solution for credit risk management, designed for private credit and collateralised loan obligation (CLO) managers.
The launch coincides...
Yarkova-Valente joins Trading Technologies
Oxana Yarkova-Valente has joined Trading Technologies as a sales executive.
Yarkova-Valente has close to 25 years of industry experience and joins the firm from MTS...
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$51 billion in US credit this October, with average daily trade sizes rising by...
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Credit futures see OI and ADV increase more than sevenfold YoY
The adoption of credit futures as a mainstream credit trading vehicle is broadening across venues and currencies: US$ 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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FROM THE ARCHIVES
US fixed income issuance down 12%, ADV up 13.5%, in Q3 2023 YoY
Total US fixed income issuance for Q3 2023 saw a 12% drop (from US$1.8tn) against the same quarter in 2022, and down 12.8% against...
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BGC Group offers US dollar swap e-trading
BGC Group has launched a fully electronic trading platform for US dollar swaps. Briana Grazioso, director of e-sales at the firm, will lead the...
MeTheMoneyShow – Episode Six
Dan Barnes, editorial director of Markets Media Europe and editor of The DESK, speaks to Lynn Strongin Dodds, editor of Best Execution about three...
7 Chord’s EM sovereign and corporate bond feed prices on Nasdaq’s Quandl
Predictive bond prices and analytics provider, 7 Chord, has expanded its data offering on Nasdaq's Quandl. Bond investors and dealers can now leverage Python,...
Is rising credit risk displaying in bid-ask spreads?
US credit markets are seeing a divergence in bid-ask spreads and trade sizes between high yield and investment grade bonds, according to data from...
On The Desk: Christoph Hock: On building efficiency
Union Investment’s development of a multi-asset trading team and segregation of high and low touch business is allowing it to focus trading resource where...
Do regulators understand ‘best execution’ in corporate bond markets?
What is best execution in bond markets?
In fixed income a best execution process matches up trade metrics to the investment parameters.
“Trading is simply how...
TraderTV: Eugene Grinberg, SOLVE
AI targets price discovery challenges in bond markets
Fixed income traders face major challenges in pricing bonds accurately, especially in volatile markets where liquidity is...
Wells Fargo Asset Management becomes Allspring Global Investments
Allspring Global Investments has officially commenced operations as an independent asset management firm, as a US-based manager with US$587 billion assets under management (AUM)....
U.S. Credit Trading Q&A: Jim Kwiatkowski, LTX
Jim Kwiatkowski was named CEO of LTX, Broadridge Financial Solutions’ artificial intelligence (AI)-driven digital trading business, in November 2022. Markets Media caught up with Jim to learn more...
FILS 2021: Macros pressures not shaking bond investor confidence
Investors remain optimistic on debt markets despite the possibility of higher inflation, Fed tapering and disruption from structural changes in China according to discussions...
Beyond Liquidity: Bringing the Grey Market to the 21st Century
The grey market exists for one purpose – for bonds to trade in the hours between the announcement of a new issue, and its...
