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The breakdown: How asset managers are tackling fixed income unbundling

By Flora McFarlane & Dan Barnes. With the revised Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) set to arrive in just under five months, buy-side...

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Neptune adds MUFG to its network

By Flora McFarlane. Neptune has announced that MUFG (Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group) is the latest bank to join its fixed income network, bringing the total number...

Liberty Street Economics: Active trading could drive loan standardisation

By Flora McFarlane. A Liberty Street Economics report analysing the US secondary loan market has found that increased trading and liquidity will potentially standardise loans. The...

SEC finds market liquidity minimally impacted by regulatory reforms

By Flora McFarlane. A paper by the Division of Economic and Risk Analysis (DERA) of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has found that...

T. Rowe Price opts for ICE’s Best Execution service

By Flora McFarlane. Asset manager T. Rowe Price has announced that it will use the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) Data Services’ Best Execution service for trade...

Fixed income is Nasdaq’s greatest challenge

By Flora McFarlane. Market operator Nasdaq has reported second quarter revenues from fixed income, commodities and currency (FICC) remained at US$19 million from Q1 2017,...

Bank of England maintains stock levels of government and corporate bonds

By Flora McFarlane. The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has voted to maintain the stock of government bond purchases at £435 billion and...

CME Group to offer futures and options on Treasuries repo financing rate

By Flora McFarlane. CME Group has announced that will launch futures and options based on the broad Treasuries repurchase agreement (repo) financing rate, set as...

Portware claims ice cracking on EMS/OMS division

By Flora McFarlane. “The order management system (OMS) and to an extent the execution management system (EMS) as stand-alone products are dead,” says John Adam, global...