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...
Liquidnet’s research reveals liquidity conditions improving
A survey of US and European bond traders has revealed that the liquidity in the fixed income markets is improving.
The research, published by the...
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ITG expands TCA into fixed income market
By Flora McFarlane.
Agency broker ITG has announced that it is expanding its transaction cost analysis (TCA) platform into the fixed income market. Covering around...
ECB warns ‘dark trading’ may cement bond market fragmentation
A paper by the European Central Bank (ECB), entitled ‘Dark pools in European equity markets: emergence, competition and implications’ has advised firms to be...
