MarketAxess to buy MuniBrokers
Bond market operator MarketAxess has agreed to buy MuniBrokers, a central electronic venue serving municipal bond inter-dealer brokers and dealers.
MuniBrokers connects 14 municipal securities...
AXA IM: Credit downgrades increases concentration and liquidity risk in index investment
A decrease in the average credit quality of fixed income indices and intensifying competition for high quality assets present increasingly serious challenges for UK...
Fed names new sellers to SMCCF including Jane Street, Tradeweb
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York has released the the first wave of additional counterparties that it has selected to support the Secondary...
Now the buy side can sell bonds to the Fed – via MarketAxess
Bond market operator, MarketAxess, has been designated as an Eligible Seller for the central bank's Secondary Market Corporate Credit Facility (SMCCF) by the Federal...
Katana expands instrument universe by 30,000 bonds
With a reported accuracy of 91%, Katana uses machine learning algorithms and the latest big data technologies to analyse live and up to ten...
Greenwich Associates: Buy side must break convention on fixed income EMS/OMS
A new report from analyst firm Greenwich Associates entitled, ‘The Fixed-Income Trading System Evolution’ makes a strong case for a new approach to developing...
Vela hooks up with Fenics UST to support low-touch trading
Execution technology supplier, Vela, has added Fenics US Treasuries (Fenics UST), the electronic Treasury trading platform owned and operated by BGC Financial, to its...
Me the Money Show – Automating bond trading & COVID 19
https://vimeo.com/454153688
In this week's show, Terry Flanagan, editor of Markets Media, talks to Dan Barnes about the ongoing automation of bond trading and the challenges...
CME paper: Is US vs Euro rate differential greater than central bank rates?
A research paper by Erik Norland, senior economist of CME Group, has found that the difference between the futures and the spot price for...
TMPG: US Treasuries supply may strain market makers; Fed guidance a concern
Newly released minutes from the Federal Reserve’s Treasury Market Practices Group, an industry-led advisory body on market structure and trading, has indicated concern about...
