Viewpoint: Tapping the expanding universe of credit futures and options
Cboe has launched options on Cboe iBoxx iShares Corporate Bond Index futures, and widened its trading hours to further expand the user base and...
Beyond Liquidity: Regulators warn on alternative Libor rates
Libor, the benchmark interest rate that was embedded in hundreds of trillions of dollars of financial contracts around the world, ceased publication at the...
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...
TransFICC: The Network is the Market – Improving access and automation in fixed income
By Steve Toland, co-founder TransFICC.
Remember Sun Microsystems’ tag line from 1984? “The Network is the Computer” – meaning computers should be networked, or they...
Automation in the life-cycle of a trade
By Oliver Clark, Head of Product Development, MTS.
The role of the fixed income trader is radically and rapidly transforming. As more workflow shifts onto...
The Agency Broker Hub: An Italian story
The Italian Treasury has implemented a flexible and diversified funding policy to manage the amount of Italian public debt. Here Laura Maridati, Digital Markets...
The Agency Broker Hub: How agency brokers are shedding their skin
By Umberto Menconi, head of Digital Markets Structures, Market Hub, Intesa Sanpaolo Group*
The agency broker has always played one of the principal roles on the...
Industry viewpoint : Mark Goodman : UBS
THE PERILS OF NOSTALGIA.
Mark Goodman, Managing Director, Global Head of Electronic Trading – FX, Rates and Credit at UBS.
‘Nostalgia’ is a modern word, coined by a...
Agency Broker Hub : A look under the broker review hood
In this Agency Broker Hub column, Michelangelo Gigante, head of Execution Desk at Eurizon Capital SGR and Gherardo Lenti Capoduri, head of Market Hub,...
Viewpoint: Lifting the pre-trade curtain
Michael Richter, an executive director at S&P Global Market Intelligence, and head of the Transaction Cost Analysis (TCA) business for EMEA explains the key...