SEC committee proposes TRACE block trading delay
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Fixed Income Market Structure Advisory committee met on 9 April 2018 to discuss a proposed pilot for a...
APAs and SmartStream RDU open Systematic Internaliser Registry to market
The SmartStream Reference Data Utility (RDU), in collaboration with a group of Approved Publication Arrangements (APAs), including Bloomberg, Deutsche Boerse, NEX Regulatory Reporting, TRADEcho,...
CME to buy NEX Group
CME to buy NEX Group
CME Group will acquire NEX in a deal expected to close in the second half of 2018, pending approval by...
MiFID II has fallen short on transparency say traders
MiFID II has fallen short on transparency and will potentially create tiered access to market information, says Juan Landazabal, global head of fixed income...
JP Morgan takes stake in Mosaic Smart Data
UPDATE:
Further to our post of 23rd October, 2017, Mosaic Smart Data announced today that JP Morgan has added Mosaic Smart Data to its strategic investments...
Frans de Wit is new head of trading at PGGM
Frans de Wit, the investment director for Treasury, Trading & Commodities at Dutch pension fund manager PGGM, has been named head of trading, following...
Bhuchar replaces Cox as head of FI trading at JPM AM
Nick Cox left his position at JP Morgan Asset Management as global head of fixed income trading at the end of 2017, a spokesperson...
Major firms rally around software standardisation
Major firms rally around software standardisation
The new OpenFin operating system, designed for use in finance houses, has gained considerable support for an initiative to...
David Blake leaves Northern Trust as director for Global Fixed Income
David Blake has left Northern Trust Global Investments as director for Global Fixed Income, after 15 years at the firm, following a restructuring of...
Mark Carney says bitcoin has ‘pretty much failed’ as money
Speaking at Regents University on 19 February, Mark Carney, the Governor of the Bank of England, said bitcoin, “has pretty much failed” on providing...
