Coalition: Sell-side FICC productivity levels rocketed in Q1
Research by analyst firm Coalition has found investment banking revenues reaching a five-year high in the first quarter of 2020, while headcount dropped significantly,...
Citi and JP Morgan absent from Fed programme
The list of eligible dealers for the Fed’s bond and exchange-traded fund programme for the 12th May has been published and it is missing...
Reported Flextrade/MarketAxess link promises efficient buy-side trading
Reports that buy-side traders are able to manage trades directly in the MarketAxess platform via execution management system (EMS) Flextrade are creating considerable interest.
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Fed begins buying bond ETFs
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York has begun to buy fixed income exchange-traded funds (ETFs) via its Secondary Market Corporate Credit Facility (SMCCF)....
Tradeweb sees a record Q1
Tradeweb has reported an average daily volume (ADV) US$897.8 billion for the first quarter of 2020, a quarterly record and an increase of 39%...
AxeTrading expands modelling and pricing tools; builds out FX and futures
AxeTrading, the fixed income trading software provider, has launched version 5 of AxeTrader, its fixed-income trading system for sell-side and buy-side firms. This latest...
Money market and repo platforms see big volumes; MTS widens footprint
The European Central Bank estimated turnover in wholesale unsecured money markets in Europe alone was €127 billion (US$137 billion) per day in Q1 2020....
Tradeweb reports high volumes continuing into April
Market operator Tradeweb has reported average daily volume (ADV) of US$763.4 billion in April across its electronic marketplaces for rates, credit, equities and money...
MarketAxess Q1 revenue up 36%; reports on US spreads
Bond market operator MarketAxess has seen revenues for the first quarter of 2020 increase 36% to US$169 million, up on the US$124.5 million it...
Governance key to EU consolidated bond tape’s success
The International Capital Markets Association (ICMA) has published a report outlining the possible routes to delivering a successful consolidated tape of price data of...
