MARKET NEWS
SGX anticipates Japanese growth with STIR futures
Singapore Exchange (SGX Group) plans to introduce short-term interest rate futures related to the Tokyo Overnight Average Rate (TONA) and the Singapore Overnight Rate...
AFME and IA agree on UK consolidated bond tape
The Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) has reached an agreement with the Investment Association (IA) on a proposal for a future UK...
JP Morgan restricted from onboarding new venues and fined US$350 million
JP Morgan has been fined US$350 million and may not onboard new trading venues without receiving prior written non-objection from the Federal Reserve Bank...
Lisa Opoku joins Tradeweb board
Tradeweb Markets has appointed Lisa Opoku to its board of directors, effective 7 March 2024.
Opoku has more than 30 years of industry experience, the...
Lars Salmon: On internal strength
Fidelity International has homegrown internal expertise and tech, to support a fixed income trading team that can weather all markets.
Lars Salmon is head of...
CME Group set to clear US cash Treasuries
A CME Group representative has confirmed to The DESK that the company is set to enter US Treasury clearing.
The news was first reported...
FEATURES
Systematic, hydromatic; can credit get as fast as greased lightning?
Some investment firms have claimed they can fully systematise credit trading by 2025, The DESK investigates.
Investment managers and banks are rapidly adopting systematic approaches...
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...
Why buy-side firms are building their own primary market tools
Interoperability is not a competitive issue; clients will build it if platforms do not supply it.
There is not a consensus on who should make the bond...
Research reveals deep divisions in trading style set by AUM and geography
Larger firms are able to take advantage of more bespoke trading opportunities, but location matters.
The DESK’s latest trading protocols research has found that the...
Doing more with less: TS Imagine launches best execution compliance module
TS Imagine, a cross-asset provider of real-time trading, portfolio and risk management solutions, has rolled out a module within TradeSmart OEMS and TS One...
EMCA 2023 WINNER: Best Sell-side Fixed Income Trading Desk – Jefferies
Jefferies stands out for commitment to clients and hands-on approach
Buy-side traders have chosen Jefferies as the “Best Sell-side Fixed Income Trading Desk” in this...
PROFILES
RESEARCH
Improved auto-quoting tops wishlist for corporate bond investors
Improved auto-quoting tops the list of what corporate bond investors would like to see more of from their liquidity providers. That is according to...
FROM THE ARCHIVES
John Miller to join First Eagle Investments
First Eagle Investments has established a new High Yield Municipal Credit team. John Miller will join First Eagle on 2 January 2024, as head...
Mosaic Smart Data expands into credit markets
Mosaic Smart Data, a capital markets data analytics provider, has expanded its data analytics platform to support a wide range of credit instruments, such...
FILS in Barcelona: Tough calls for investors
Big picture phrases like ‘higher for longer’ and ‘transitory’ inflation are too imprecise to guide a professional investor, the Fixed Income Leaders’ Summit (FILS)...
FILS 2021: Dealers outline strategy for direct connectivity
Buy-side traders are seeing their sell-side counterparts offering direct streamed prices as an alternative source for data and direct trading, which dealers see as...
EUREX: Why credit index futures are here to stay
Lee Bartholomew, global head of fixed income and currencies product design, and Davide Masi, fixed income ETD product design at Eurex spoke to The DESK...
UniCredit and ACTIAM join Trad-X’s dealer-to-client platform
Trad-X, the trading platform for interest rate derivatives, has added UniСredit as a dealer and ACTIAM as a non-dealer to its dealer-to-client (D2C) electronic...
MarketAxess’s 2020 revenues up nearly 35%
Electronic bond market operator, MarketAxess, has reported revenues in 2020 were up 34.8% on 2019 to US$689.1 million, compared to US$511.4 million for the...
BlackRock launches first BuyWrite fixed income ETFs
BlackRock launched a first-of-its-kind suite of fixed income ETFs that provide access to buy-write investment strategies on baskets of fixed income securities: the iShares...
RIAs select IMTC as partner for growth in fixed income account management
IMTC, the provider of fixed income investment management technology, has signed Davenport & Company and F.L.Putnam Investment Management to use IMTC as their portfolio...
FCA “utterly useless” engaging with EU over Brexit
By Chris Hall.
Veteran city commentator Anthony Hilton delivered a harsh verdict on the UK financial regulators’ efforts to support Britain’s finance industry ahead of...
InvestorAccess reaches milestone with 500th institutional investor on board
IHS Markit reports it has onboarded the 500th institutional investor to its buy-side InvestorAccess community, the firm’s digital primary market platform.
InvestorAccess first launched in...
Market volatility and automated trading decision-making
Gain greater confidence in your automated trading decisions during market volatility
By Charlie Campbell-Johnston, Managing Director, AiEX & Workflow Solutions at Tradeweb.
In times of volatility, traders...