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ETS scraps out-of-hours model, Ediphy drops legal case
The UK bond consolidated tape saga appears to be cooling down, as Etrading Software irons out its support services and Ediphy backs down from...
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...
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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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Egri-Thomas swaps Citadel for LMR Partners
Taylor Egri-Thomas has joined LMR Partners as a portfolio manager and head of US credit.
He is based in New York.
Alternative investment manager LMR Partners...
US corporate bond market continues upward trajectory
Average daily notional volumes (ADNV) were up 9% year-on-year (YoY) in US credit markets, reaching US$47 billion. Year-to-date, ADNV is up 21%.
In 2024, the...
Coding error triggers US$7 million fine for Citadel
The Securities and Exchange Commission has settled charges against broker-dealer Citadel Securities for violating a provision of Regulation SHO, the regulatory framework designed to...
Origination: Investors side-eye Salesforce US$25 billion issuance to fund equity purchase
Salesforce returned to the US investment-grade market on 11 March issuing US$25 billion senior unsecured bonds. Book to build for the various tranches came...
Serrano swaps Liquidnet for Tradition
Fausto Serrano has joined interdealer broker Tradition as North American head of electronic credit brokering. He is based in New York.
Tradition reported CHF 1.1...
Rules & Ratings: S&P Global brings standard identifiers to private credit
S&P Global has expanded its LoanX IDs (LXIDs) to provide private credit identifiers.
The LXIDs identify instruments across counterparties and datasets, enabling them to be...
Millennium, Investortools solution to digitise muni market
Fixed income broker-dealer Millennium Advisors and Investortools, a provider of fixed-income software solutions, have partnered to simplify the manually intensive workflow of a typical...
HQLAX gains funding, plans Canton Network migration
Broadridge and Digital Asset have made minority investments in digital collateral mobility solutions provider HQLAX.
The investments follow increased interest in digital asset solutions across...
How traders weathered the Treasury sell-off
The US Treasury’s auction of seven-year notes last Thursday saw the lowest investor appetite ever, according to some sources, leaving primary dealers holding the...
FI revenues make big yearly gains at European exchanges
Fixed income trading revenues dipped in the second quarter at European exchanges – but were up more than 20% across the board.
LSEG’s fixed income...
Double digit revenue growth at US exchanges; services beat trading
US exchanges saw increased revenues across the board in Q4 2025, with the largest players making the bulk of their profits from non-transactional services...
Sara Furber appointed Tradeweb CFO
Market operator Tradeweb has appointed Sara Furber as its chief financial officer (CFO), effective from 7 September 2021. She succeeds Robert Warshaw, who will...
