MARKET NEWS
S&P Global automates muni allocations
S&P Global Market Intelligence has launched an automated municipal bond allocation tool.
Integrated into the firm’s muni issuance solution, Municipal Bookbuild, the Municipal Bond Allotment...
Trumid brings automation to credit voice trading
Trumid has bolstered its services with Smart Voice, an LLM-driven tool that auto-populates credit trade tickets based on unstructured conversations.
“Despite all the growth in...
Saudi Arabia joins JP Morgan, Bloomberg indices
Saudi Arabia’s SAR-denominated sovereign sukuk is set to become part of JP Morgan’s emerging markets government bond (GBI-EM) global diversified index and Bloomberg’s EM...
Carolan joins Citi
Citi has named James Carolan as global head of FX structuring and solutions, effective July.
Based in New York, he reports to global head of...
TransFICC automates credit quote and trade negotiation
TransFICC has released a credit trading and quote negotiation automation tool for dealers pricing on dealer-to-client venues.
Credit Agent routes dealers’ enquiries to stream prices,...
Kerkor leads EMEA EM credit for ING
Joseph Kerkor has joined ING as a managing director and head of emerging markets credit trading for EMEA. He is based in London.
ING reported...
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Eurex sees lit credit future liquidity migrate to dark
The Bloomberg / Eurex credit futures conference in mid-January 2026 had all seats taken and attendees standing in the aisles. That bursting enthusiasm was...
Human battles machine in JGB market
Participants say electronic trading of Japanese government bonds has reached an inflection point, but others counter that the death of voice trading has been...
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...
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Trading Intentions Survey: Data and protocol innovation are the battlegrounds for...
The 2026 Trading Intentions Survey has found that data is the most hotly-contested field in supporting corporate bond trading today, while analysis of trading...
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TP ICAP launches Bond Evaluated Price service
TP ICAP, the interdealer broker, has launched its first-ever set of evaluated price solutions focused on fixed income securities via its Data & Analytics...
SEC pushes back “unreasonable” broker-dealer compliance deadline
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has pushed back the compliance date for amendments to its broker-dealer customer protection rule (15c3-3).
The amendments will now...
What effect could retail flow have on credit markets?
Retail investment in equity markets has had two major effects on market conditions; one is an increasing engagement in direct trading into the market,...
Cboe Australia, XTB expand access to corporate bond products
Cboe Australia has added XTB’s exchange-traded corporate bond products (XTBs) to the Cboe Funds platform.
In partnership with XTB, Cboe Australia has launched a series...
Worsening credit outlook does not hurt credit trading
The corporate bond market has stood up to the test of tariffs – but will the corporate environment? As earnings season kicks in, companies...
Direct price streaming will transform credit trading
Banks are providing corporate bond pricing feeds direct to clients shaping new potential execution paths. Dan Barnes reports.
Big investment banks including Morgan Stanley, UBS...
Credit trading desks seeing job cuts & hiring freezes, adding to operational pressure
Reports of reduction in headcount on buy-side trading desks at BlackRock, Nuveen and Wellington with cuts also reported at investment banks, are demonstrating the...
MSCI and MarketAxess collaborate on liquid fixed income indexes, portfolio construction and ESG
MSCI and MarketAxess are entering into a strategic collaboration to create portfolio analytics solutions and co-branded fixed income indexes incorporating MarketAxess liquidity data.
MSCI plans...
How UBS Bond Port gives traders greater control during market stress
Traders were empowered by electronic execution in the sell-off thanks to market innovation. The DESK speaks to Graham Cox and Nicolas Masso, Global Co-Heads of UBS Bond Port.
How...
Investor Appetite: Credit buyers show stiff upper lip
Credit investors have proven resilient to political uncertainty while happy to take up the promised future view of AI application. As a result corporate...
Rising rates but falling demand
Analysis by JP Morgan’s Global Markets Strategy team, Nikos Panigirtzoglou, Mika Inkinen and Mayur Yeole has cast an interesting light on the prospects for...
Change is jangling money market funds
Lynn Strongin Dodds looks at the impact of liquidity and settlement reforms.
Regulatory reform, which has been a very long time coming in the US$4.46...
