Market News

Coalition: Sell-side FICC productivity levels rocketed in Q1

Research by analyst firm Coalition has found investment banking revenues reaching a five-year high in the first quarter of 2020, while headcount dropped significantly,...

Citi and JP Morgan absent from Fed programme

The list of eligible dealers for the Fed’s bond and exchange-traded fund programme for the 12th May has been published and it is missing...

Reported Flextrade/MarketAxess link promises efficient buy-side trading

Reports that buy-side traders are able to manage trades directly in the MarketAxess platform via execution management system (EMS) Flextrade are creating considerable interest. Most...

Fed begins buying bond ETFs

The Federal Reserve Bank of New York has begun to buy fixed income exchange-traded funds (ETFs) via its Secondary Market Corporate Credit Facility (SMCCF)....

Tradeweb sees a record Q1

Tradeweb has reported an average daily volume (ADV) US$897.8 billion for the first quarter of 2020, a quarterly record and an increase of 39%...

Me The Money Show – Episode Five

John Dantona, editor of Traders magazine and Dan Barnes, editorial director of Markets Media Europe, discuss the latest news in the cryptocurrency trading space,...

AxeTrading expands modelling and pricing tools; builds out FX and futures

AxeTrading, the fixed income trading software provider, has launched version 5 of AxeTrader, its fixed-income trading system for sell-side and buy-side firms. This latest...

Money market and repo platforms see big volumes; MTS widens footprint

The European Central Bank estimated turnover in wholesale unsecured money markets in Europe alone was €127 billion (US$137 billion) per day in Q1 2020....

Tradeweb reports high volumes continuing into April

Market operator Tradeweb has reported average daily volume (ADV) of US$763.4 billion in April across its electronic marketplaces for rates, credit, equities and money...