Weakening dollar plays havoc with sovereign bond values
In August 2026, the dollar value of Korea treasury bonds increased by US$51.8bn. But only US$13.41bn of that was new issuance. The rest was...
TTFX: Poor datasets make decisions a challenge
Trading is an information game, and the amount of information available to the market is constantly increasing. At TradeTech FX Europe, the importance of...
Sense Street, S&P partner on issuance automation
Sense Street has partnered with S&P Global Market Intelligence to improve automation in the primary bond markets.
Sense Street takes unstructured chat communications between sales...
AbbVie issues US$10 billion to fund Apogee acquisition
American pharmaceutical research and development firm AbbVie issued US$10 billion in bonds during August.
Split across nine tranches, net proceeds from the notes are expected...
Alphabet leads August issuance race
Alphabet, the holding company of Google, completed the largest corporate bond issuance globally this month with US$24.15 billion in US dollar-denominated bonds.
The firm accomplished...
Jane Street launches giant bond issuance
Jane Street has issued US$14.6 billion in senior secured notes as it restructures its corporate funding profile.
The bumper issuance dwarfs the market maker’s activity...
NTT issues bumper offshore bond offering
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) issued US$10.48 billion in new bonds on 1 July, split across US dollar, euro and GBP denominations.
The largest two...
Could the ICE-MarketAxess tie-up intensify battle for US credit e-trading?
As US credit trading becomes increasingly electronic, could ICE’s planned acquisition of MarketAxess further intensify competition among e-trading platforms? Trader TV speaks to Lucy...
Investors favour ATSs to act on FOMC data
Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meetings are one of the largest drivers of US rates trading activity, according to Coalition Greenwich research, and are...
MUFG taps into tokenised govies
MUFG has launched a proof-of-concept (PoC) for on-chain Japanese government bond (JGB) repo transactions, following on the success of international initiatives.
Activity will take place...
