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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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FNZ acquiring bond portfolio management tool YieldX
FNZ, the wealth management platform, has agreed to acquire YieldX, the US-based provider of fixed income portfolio management technology, optimisation services and direct indexing...
MTS BondVision and B2SCAN: Tackling the liquidity challenge head-on
MTS BondVision and B2SCAN are partnering to streamline the process of execution in corporate bonds. By combining liquidity discovery with order matching, the trading...
Lack of detail sinks odd-lot bond case against major banks
The United States District Court, Southern District of New York, has dismissed a court case brought against Bank of America, Barclays, Citigroup, Credit...
EU begins NGEU bill auctions but secondary market needs support
The European Union’s new bond issuance auction programme started on 15 September, via the TELSAT auction system operated by Banque de France for its...
Algomi taps bonds held in custody to release liquidity
BNY Mellon and HSBC are each partnering with pre-trade bond data specialist Algomi, to expand corporate bond trading opportunities for their custody clients and...
FINBOURNE completes Series B funding round
FINBOURNE Technology has raised £55 million in Series B funding, led by Highland Europe and AVP. The firm remains majority employee owned.
The results follow...
CSDR settlement regime ‘out’ as UK sets new path
The UK has halted compliance with the settlement regime of the European Central Securities Depository (CSDR) rules, which traders had fought hard against, due...
Exclusive: BMO Capital Markets, Blaylock Van, and American Veterans Group join DirectBooks
DirectBooks has had BMO Capital Markets, Blaylock Van, and American Veterans Group join its bond issuance platform.
These recent additions increase the total number...
Bid-ask spread betting in credit
Betting how bid-ask spreads will move this year has been made more challenging by a dislocation between the mean average and the median bid-ask...
Maddox swaps TSB for L&G Asset Management
James Maddox has joined L&G Asset Management as a fixed income trader in London.
L&G Asset Management holds a reported £1,117 trillion in assets under...
Large US credit trades “holy grail” for e-trading growth
US credit average daily notional volumes edged up in February, reaching US$62 billion – up 13% year-on-year (YoY) but only marginally increasing from the...
Beyond Liquidity: T+1 Testing Begins
DTCC, the US post-trade market infrastructure, formally started the testing program for moving to a shorter settlement cycle on 14 August so market participants...
