MARKET NEWS
Achour leads Citadel Securities’ APAC credit trading
Redha Achour has joined Citadel Securities as APAC head of credit trading. He is based in Hong Kong.
Citadel Securities has been building out its...
LTX gains five heavyweight dealers
Five major banks have joined Broadridge-backed corporate bond e-trading platform LTX.
Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, TD Securities, Morgan Stanley, and Bank of America are now...
CME expands repo benchmarks to US
CME Group has expanded its RepoFunds Rates benchmark collection, measuring overnight funding costs in the US repo market.
Using data from centrally cleared overnight US...
TS Imagine taps OpenYield for bond trading
OpenYield has connected its all-to-all fixed income alternative trading system (ATS) to TS Imagine’s multi-asset execution management system, TradeSmart.
This will grant TradeSmart users access...
MarketAxess offers retail access to institutional liquidity
MarketAxess is opening up its institutional liquidity and pricing to retail clients through a partnership with AI investment management platform Moment.
Large wealth manager and...
BME FI turnover spikes, SIX Group drops
Despite BME’s fixed income trading turnover was up almost twofold year-on-year (YoY) in April, SIX Group saw a 7.3% month-on-month (MoM) decline in fixed...
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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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RESEARCH
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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Summer heat subdues European activity
Activity in both European high yield (HY) and investment grade (IG) declined in the last week of July, with trade volumes falling to yearly...
US rates volatility, e-trading decline in September
E-trading was down five percentage points year-on-year (YoY) and one percentage point month-on-month (MoM) in US rates over September, taking 54% of overall volumes.
Dealer-to-client...
FILS 2024: Differing views of the macro picture
Do the central banks have our backs? This question was debated by buyside strategists at the Fixed Income Leaders Summit on Friday.
“We believe in...
FILS 2021: Overbond adds pre-trade streaming API for TCA into EMS automation suite
Overbond, a provider of AI analytics and trade automation for the global fixed income markets, has added pre-trade and post-trade transaction cost analysis (TCA)...
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...
Corporate bonds : E/OMS politics : Anna Reitman
GATEKEEPERS TO LIQUIDITY.
E/OMS providers need to overcome political hurdles to help the buy side navigate credit’s fractured markets. Anna Reitman investigates.
Vendors and brokers that...
Nomura poaches Moritz Westhoff
Moritz Westhoff joins Nomura as head of US rates trading, based in New York and reporting to global co-heads of rates Nat Tyce and...
Advances in corporate bond e-trading: Five lessons learned
By Constantinos Antoniades, Global Head of Fixed Income at Liquidnet
Since early 2015 we have seen a steady acceleration in the migration towards electronic trading...
More EM platform consolidation amid liquidity challenges
Emerging markets have offered a strong opportunity for yield in recent years, albeit with greater credit risk and FX volatility, however getting access to markets...
DLT – What is the value in primary markets?
A recent study prepared on behalf of the Global Financial Markets Association (GFMA) by Boston Consulting Group, Cravath, Swaine, and Moore LLP, and Clifford...
Updated: Bloomberg launches all-to-all bond trading service
Bloomberg has launched Bloomberg Bridge, a new global all-to-all service that supports intermediated trading for corporate and emerging market bonds. Clients will initially be...
SEC warns on counterparty risk in volatile markets
Staff of the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) division of trading and markets have urged broker-dealers and other market participants to remain vigilant to...
