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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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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BNP Paribas Asset Management appoints new global head of trading
BNP Paribas Asset Management has appointed Inés de Trémiolles as global head of trading within its Global Trading Function. de Trémiolles will join on...
Automation may relieve the liquidity burden of capital rules
Corporate bond markets are rapidly electronifying on both sides of the Atlantic. Electronification of trading creates a virtuous circle for delivering faster, more standardised...
Bond traders report screen prices are off by 10%
Several buy-side fixed income traders have confirmed that electronic prices are currently around 10% off the price that bonds are actually trading at, creating...
Industry viewpoint : Accessing China’s bond market with HSBC
Outlining the market impact of the latest changes in the Chinese bond market, Tony Shaw, Head of Institutional Sales APAC at HSBC, discusses the...
MeTheMoneyShow : Dimon worries about fintechs
Dan Barnes, Editorial Director of Markets Media Europe and senior writer Shanny Basar discuss the latest shareholder 'letter' from Jamie Dimon, chairman and chief executive of...
BGC CEO to divest ownership if appointed US Secretary of Commerce
Howard Lutnick, CEO of interdealer broker, infrastructure and data provider, BGC Group, has said he would leave the business entirely if he is appointed...
Simone Santiago leaves Morgan Stanley
Simone Santiago has left Morgan Stanley, the company has confirmed.
Santiago has been managing director at the firm since January 2022.
Prior to this, she spent...
Industry moves closer to 24/7 on-chain collateral availability
A financing transaction from US Treasuries against USDC stablecoin has been completed on the Canton Network, the latest initiative of a working group aiming...
Euronext and Deutsche Borse drift closer in FI revenues
The gap between fixed income revenues at rival European exchanges Deutsche Borse and Euronext is narrowing, the divide between the two falling by 20%...
SSGA: Treasuries, convertibles and EM on the cards for 2019
By Vineet Naik.
State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) is predicting that US Treasuries, convertible bonds and emerging market (EM) debt will see increased investment in...
Issuance of debt increasingly financing UK companies
Analysis of corporate financing across European, UK and US markets by the Association of Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) has found that over the...
Greenwich: Data analytics now more valued than market structure knowledge
Three out of four capital markets professionals say data analysis will be the most valued skill on trading desks over the next five years,...
