Forging new paths in fintech
MarketAxess’s head of business development for post-trade, Camille McKelvey discusses her personal journey, and the path to leadership for women in capital markets.
Camille McKelvey is...
Pacific Western and Banc of California merge, sell US$1.9bn in bonds, munis and treasuries
Banc of California has today completed its merger with PacWest Bancorp, with both firms shedding billions of dollars’ worth of agency commercial mortgage-backed securities,...
Bank of England launches SWES test for bond markets
The Bank of England (BoE) has published the latest phase of the System-wide Exploratory Scenario (SWES) with bank and non-bank participants provided a hypothetical...
Local currency emerging market trading grows at MarketAxess
MarketAxess, the operator of an electronic trading platform for fixed-income securities, has seen a rise in volumes of local currency bond trading in emerging...
ICMA fills in the blanks on MiFID II agreement
A new article written by the regulatory team at the International Capital Markets Association (ICMA), has shed light on details in the agreed text...
BondBloxx outsources trading to Northern Trust
Northern Trust providing outsourced trading services to BondBloxx, an issuer of fixed income exchange traded funds (ETFs) which recently surpassed US$1 billion in assets...
Investment Grade trading: A tale of two markets
By John Gallagher, MarketAxess
Last year, the markets were a one-way trade. Aggressive rate increases leading to horrible returns. Sell everything! And ask questions later......
The liquidity gap between 144A and Reg S bonds
144A and Regulation S (Reg S) securities have distinct regulatory backgrounds and key differences. Liquidity measures such as Bid-Ask spread and post-issuance volumes in...
Viewpoint: MarketAxess to increase automation with Adaptive Auto-X
MarketAxess is aiming to initially launch Adaptive Auto-X in the first half of this year to provide clients with algorithmic workflows and allow them...
Research: ETFs worsen fixed income liquidity in a crisis
An academic paper has argued that fixed income exchange traded funds (ETFs) “improve bond liquidity in general, but worsen it in periods of large...
