Bringing innovation and liquidity to the US Treasuries market
Earlier this month, PIMCO, one of the world’s largest fixed income asset managers, published their view on how to improve the functioning of the US...
Analyzing chair Gensler’s comments on TRACE reporting
By Julien Alexandre & Grant Lowensohn
Highlights
The SEC chair recently announced the SEC was considering reducing the reporting window for US corporate bond transactions to...
Reviewing 2022: European credit trading costs have doubled
There have been an enormous number of factors shaking up bond trading this year. From fixed income fundamentals like rapidly rising interest rates from...
Examining the (Thames) Water fall
In 2013 when markets still looked precarious amid the fallout from the financial crisis, utilities were a good investment.
With a near cast-iron cashflow...
A tale of two metrics – US IG corporate bond market liquidity in 2022
By Julien Alexandre, 12 October 2022
Corporate Bond Market Distress Index
The NY Fed recently launched the Corporate Bond Market Distress Index and backfilled it all...
If you go down to the woods today…
The bond market is bearish at a historical level according to analysis by BofA Securities, with high yield down -16.7%, investment grade down -19.3%,...
Unlocking Liquidity for the U.S. Treasury Markets
Unlocking Liquidity for the U.S. Treasury Markets
By MarketAxess | 22 November 2022
Advocating for all-to-all trading has always been the MarketAxess way, but lately, it...
All I want for Christmas, is trading analytics
Traders would do well to run close analysis over their European trading activity this month, as data from MarketAxess Trax, which tracks trading across...
EMIR refit: get ahead of upcoming changes
By Joanne Salkeld at MarketAxess
The European Commission's regulatory fitness and performance programme (REFIT) is aimed at simplifying EU legislation and reducing any unnecessary regulatory...
Primary markets start 2023 with top ten hit
Bond issuance for US investment grade on 3 January 2023 was the tenth largest day on record, according to data from Dealogic.
While January is...