Overbond launches trade size-sensitive AI bond liquidity and pricing analytics
Overbond, the API-based credit trading automation and execution service, has launched artificial intelligence-driven liquidity and price confidence analytics, that are designed to auto-adapt to...
Did UBS/CS deal terms just revalue the entire AT1 bond market?
Buy-side trading desks say they are looking at the risk of contagion across financials, following the takeover of troubled Credit Suisse by UBS, for...
The week in summary: Credit Suisse; fixed income liquidity; ‘Who died?’
This week has been very challenging for buy-side trading desks as broker-dealers struggle to price bonds, and uncertainty gripped markets.
“I was off Monday, came...
Exclusive: FENICS Invitations closes
Multiple market sources have confirmed that Fenics Invitations has closed.
The execution service, run by interdealer broker BGC Partners, was intended to provide an all-day...
When banks go bust holding boring bonds
**This article will appear in full in the next issue of The DESK**
Government bonds are described as a 'risk-free' instrument, on the basis that...
Tim Cook joins Tradeweb
Tim Cook has been named director for emerging markets at market operator Tradeweb.
Cook was the head of business development at LedgerEdge until the...
Bloomberg to buy Broadway Technology in boost to rates trading
Bloomberg has entered into an agreement to acquire Broadway Technology, a fixed-income execution management system (EMS) provider. This acquisition will help Bloomberg to...
The Agency Broker Hub: The fixed income ETD market – what are 2022’s main...
By Carmine Calamello, Head of Brokerage & Execution, Market Hub, Intesa Sanpaolo, IMI CIB Division.
After a decade of expansionary monetary policy and interest rates close...
Digital bond issuance: From zero to US$1,500,000,000 in 12 months
S&P Global Market Intelligence has assessed that the digital bond market “remains a work in progress” as new bond issuance focuses on testing in...
Credit Agricole, R. Seelaus & Co. and Siebert Williams Shank join DirectBooks
Credit Agricole Corporate & Investment Bank, R. Seelaus & Co. and Siebert Williams Shank have joined the primary bond market platform operator DirectBooks. The...