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Fixed income gets a faster engine
The repo market sits at the heart of the global financial system, yet its efficiency rarely makes headlines outside specialist circles. As a mechanism...
Roughton joins Propellant
Propellant Digital has named Helena Roughton as a product manager, specialising in regulation.
In the London-based role, Roughton is responsible for Propellant’s regulatory product roadmap...
CLS onboards BofA for CCS service
Bank of America has gone live on CLS’s cross-currency swaps (CCS) service as FX market turnover grows.
According to the Bank of International Settlements, daily...
US rates volatility falls, volumes drop 20%
Average daily notional volumes (ADNV) were down 20% year-on-year (YoY) in US rates trading, falling to US$1.069 billion. Volatility dropped by 32% YoY to...
US credit trading volumes tumble from March peak
Average daily notional volumes (ADNV) dropped in US credit during April, while trade sizes crept up.
Total ADNV was down 5% year-on-year (YoY) and 12%...
UK eyes extended settlement, pushes tokenisation
The UK is inching its way towards 24/7 settlement, with the Bank of England issuing a consultation paper about bringing the CHAPS payment and...
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The accelerating boat to China: A faster route for traders
China offers investors a wealth of opportunity, with the caveat that markets are not fully open. Where the authorities are cautious about changes to market...
Eurex sees lit credit future liquidity migrate to dark
The Bloomberg / Eurex credit futures conference in mid-January 2026 had all seats taken and attendees standing in the aisles. That bursting enthusiasm was...
Human battles machine in JGB market
Participants say electronic trading of Japanese government bonds has reached an inflection point, but others counter that the death of voice trading has been...
Credit futures see OI and ADV increase more than sevenfold YoY
The adoption of credit futures as a mainstream credit trading vehicle is broadening across venues and currencies: US$ iBoxx total return based futures traded...
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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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FROM THE ARCHIVES
Fixed Income TCA, who would have thought it?
Paul Reynolds, Head of FI Sales and Strategy at TradingScreen
For many years Fixed Income TCA has failed to adequately provide its users with a...
This Week from Trader TV: Tim Littrell, Agile Investment Management
Markets tune out geopolitical risks as EM activity picks up
New Trader TV This Week - Despite a turbulent start to 2026 marked by geopolitical...
Decision trees (and how to climb them)
Making the working lives of credit traders better is The DESK’s mission. Traders are time poor, and systematising trading allows them to free up...
Trading protocols: The pros and cons of getting a two-way price in fixed income
Getting a two-way price is unusual in fixed income trading, but normal in FX; that is changing and yielding some real results for best...
Overbond launches real-time AI bond pricing trading product
Fixed income analytics provider, Overbond, has launched COBI-Pricing LIVE, a new real-time AI bond pricing product. COBI-Pricing LIVE is designed to process real-time historical...
ICMA: Adopt data-driven approach to MIFIR RTS 2 post-trade deferral framework
The International Capital Market Association (ICMA) has co-signed a cross-industry statement on the MIFIR RTS 2 post-trade deferral framework for bonds, calling for a...
Exclusive: Competition fails to cut prices for FX dealers
When Bloomberg announced, in Q4 2024, that it was to start charging dealers for using FXGO, its foreign exchange trading service, a number of...
Credit under pressure: What gives?
If interest rates go up, economic growth becomes strained and business conditions worsen, stress on the corporate bond and private credit markets will increase....
Tradeweb reports high volumes continuing into April
Market operator Tradeweb has reported average daily volume (ADV) of US$763.4 billion in April across its electronic marketplaces for rates, credit, equities and money...
Bond trading boosts BNP Paribas’s FICC revenues
BNP Paribas’s investment bank delivered double digit revenue growth in 2019, with revenues for Fixed Income Currencies and Commodities (FICC) up by over 30%....
Seeing through the pricing mirage
Traders and PMs found real value in using axes over onscreen prices during the recent liquidity crisis.
Neptune’s streaming of dealer axes continues to grow in value...
An EMS built for bond trading
Trading protocols in fixed income are multiplying and becoming more dynamic, placing demands on trading desks that only an EMS can manage.
An execution management...
