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EU-UK financial services regulatory framework to be agreed by March 2021

The draft Trade and Cooperation Agreement between the United Kingdom (UK) and European Union (EU), which has been supported by the Europe Union and...

Criticism of price formation in Gilt syndication defended by UK’s Debt Management Office

Challenges to the process of UK government bond (Gilt) pricing by syndicate banks, made by member of parliament, Mel Stride, chair of the Treasury...

Horan: Buy-side trader role and support will continue to change in 2021

By Michael Horan, Head of Trading, EMEA, at BNY Mellon’s Pershing. Today, buy-side firms have to grapple with the most complex trading environment in the...

2020: Finding positives in a tough year

While 2020 was a tough year on many levels, Lee Olesky, CEO of Tradeweb, has tried to pick out the positives from a market...

GreySpark: FI markets will continue to see fragmentation based on all-to-all trading

A report by consultancy GreySpark has found that in 2020, global fixed income e-trading landscape has been defined by fragmentation in line with historical...

Mizuho and Credit Suisse join DirectBooks

DirectBooks, the capital markets consortium developing bond issuance technology to increase primary market efficiency has announced that Mizuho and Credit Suisse have joined its...

Asteria IM partners with Amundi for portfolio management system and dealing services

Asteria Investment Managers has adopted asset manager Amundi’s portfolio management system, the Amundi Leading Technologies & Operations (ALTO), for all of its assets under...

ICE Data fine is symptomatic of bond data challenge

ICE Data Pricing & Reference Data (PRD) has been fined by US$8 million by US market regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), for...

MarketAxess launches centralised marketplace with integrated rates trading

Electronic bond market operator, MarketAxess, has launched a centralised fixed income trading marketplace integrating rates trading capabilities within the MarketAxess trading system. MarketAxess acquired government...