MarketAxess and DirectBooks move to the next Phase of primary bond market partnership
MarketAxess and DirectBooks are moving their bond market partnership into its next phase, expanding the integration of DirectBooks’ new-issue data and workflow tools within...
Brett Chappell: The Last Mile Problem
The Market Solved Distribution Faster Than Digestion
Introduction
The fixed income market has spent years discussing how to distribute liquidity electronically. Considerable effort has gone into...
Propellant Digital: A single tape is not enough
The move towards the consolidated tape is not a silver bullet
By Vidal Mehra, Chief Product Officer, Propellant Digital.
When the FCA and ESMA transparency regimes...
CME: Credit futures surge
Credit futures surge as investors seek capital-efficient risk tools
Credit futures are gaining traction among institutional investors as a capital-efficient way to manage corporate credit...
The UK’s Consolidated Tape: On track and going global
As the UK's fixed income consolidated tape prepares for its June launch, Sassan Danesh, CEO of Etrading Software, the Consolidated Tape Provider (CTP) for...
Propellant Digital: European credit became transparent overnight
What traders need to ask now?
By Vincent Grandjean, Founder & CEO, Propellant Digital.
The new FCA transparency regime went live on 1st December 2025 with an immediate...
Brett Chappell: Private credit is moving from obscure to intelligible
Framing private credit evolution with asset class models will mislead
Private credit is not special. It is simply another way of harvesting risk premia.
Recent headlines...
MTS: Clarity, not just transparency, on bond trading costs
How bond trading platforms are redefining cost efficiency in European fixed income
The cost of trading bonds has long been an opaque and contested arena....
TransFICC: Technology, efficiency, and the rise of liquidity outsourcing
Technology, Efficiency, and the Rise of Liquidity Outsourcing
By Tim Whipman, Head of Business Development at TransFICC
This article is the first in a quarterly series...
Roundtable debate: Can the market electronify block trades?
The efficiency of electronic trading has trade-offs for blocks based on information disclosure, leakage and trust.
Electronifying execution of larger bond orders is the ‘holy...
