Row erupts as CBOE seeks to define exchange boundaries
An application by multi-asset market operator, CBOE, to define what is considered a ‘facility’ of the exchange, has triggered a row. The firm sought...
Do banks want credit trading to look like FX?
The end game of market making commoditisation is that a smaller number of players provide a vast volume of liquidity to the majority of...
The ‘venue’ question raised by ESMA’s new order execution consultation
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) is consulting on the development of technical standards (RTS) specifying the criteria for establishing and assessing the...
valantic FSA to develop web UI for Nasdaq Rates Trader
valantic FSA has agreed to develop Nasdaq Rates Trader, a new web-based user interface for Nasdaq’s Nordic and Baltic fixed income markets.
The new UI...
Sustainable bond issuance now 12% of total market
A report co-authored by Nicholas Pfaff, Valérie Guillaumin, Simone Utermarck, Ozgur Altun and Stanislav Egorov of the International Capital Markets Association (ICMA), has found...
IRS electronification: 20 years in the making
With the 20th anniversary of Tradeweb’s interest rate swaps (IRS) marketplace around the corner, the firm’s head of US institutional Rates, Bhas Nalabothula, looks...
Opinion: Competition, not regulation, will make better bond markets
European credit trading has historically seen levels of electronic trading of around 50% of total corporate credit trading, while the US market has historically...
CME Group reports first week US credit futures trade count
Market operator CME Group reports its new US Credit futures have traded 415 contracts since their launch on 17 June 2024.
“In just one week...
Analysis: Electronic trading across US and European bond markets
Electronic trading of US credit erupted in May 2024, according to analysis of the US credit market by Coalition Greenwich. It found that investment...
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Hahn vows to continue drive for EU bond sovereign status
Johannes Hahn, commissioner responsible for budget and administration at the European Commission (EC) has said the organisation intends to continue its push for bonds...