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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Morgan Stanley to acquire Eaton Vance
Morgan Stanley is to buy investment manager Eaton Vance, which has US$500 billion in assets under management (AUM), for US$7 billion. The acquisition should...
BoE sets code of conduct for repo and securities lending
A new voluntary Money Markets Code setting out the standards and best practice expected from participants in the deposit, repo and securities lending markets...
Ten years of research: Lessons for trading platforms in fixed income
Lessons on the viability and competitiveness of liquidity aggregation tools can be drawn form the last decade of research conducted by The DESK.
In 2015...
Etrading Software and Artis Holdings’ electronic loans platform is live
Capital markets system provider Etrading Software, and electronic loans technology specialist Artis Holdings, have completed the opening bids wanted in competition (BWIC) process via...
MarketAxess acquires RFQ-hub
MarketAxess has acquired a 90% controlling stake of global derivatives and ETF platform RFQ-hub.
RFQ-hub operates a bilateral, multi-asset and multi-dealer request for quote (RFQ)...
ESMA “largely maintains approach” on MiFIR Review bond transparency
In the latest publication under the MiFIR Review, ESMA has issued its final report on bond transparency and reasonable commercial basis.
Changes have been made...
Will primary market tools fragment new issuance instead of standardising it?
Research by The DESK has found that buy-side traders have adopted a range of primary market tools to help them increase their efficiency at...
The Book: Eli Lilly issues 40-year notes as weight loss industry booms
Eli Lilly & Co issued US$6.71 billion in bonds in August, with maturities ranging from three to 40 years.
The firm, which produces weight loss...
Cosaic and Reformis partner to drive interoperability on buy side
Workflow solution provider, Cosaic, has partnered with Reformis. is a technology consulting firm for the investment management industry to bring interoperability to buy-side firms...
Forging new paths in fintech
MarketAxess’s head of business development for post-trade, Camille McKelvey discusses her personal journey, and the path to leadership for women in capital markets.
Camille McKelvey is...
Bloomberg’s Bridge AXE boosts all-to-all liquidity discovery
Bloomberg has launched Bridge AXE, an extension of the firm’s Bridge intermediated workflow, which allows participants to anonymously post to other Bridge participants, and...
Tradition takes over BondsPro as MTS leaves US market
MTS, the European bond trading platform majority-owned by Euronext, has completed the sale of its US subsidiary MTS Markets International to Tradition America Holdings,...
