Federal Reserve group issues credit risk warning over US Treasuries trading
By Pia Hecher.
The Federal Reserve’s Treasury Market Practices Group (TMPG), which discusses issues in the US government bond market, has said that firms are...
Controversy as buy side forces U-turn on US liquidity rule
By Jonathan Weitzmann.
The liquidity risk management financial rule (Rule 22e-4) was approved on 28 June 2018 by US regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission...
ESMA publishes its first liquidity assessment for bonds
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published today its first liquidity assessment for bonds subject to the pre- and post-trade requirements of...
MiFID II has fallen short on transparency say traders
MiFID II has fallen short on transparency and will potentially create tiered access to market information, says Juan Landazabal, global head of fixed income...
MEP slams precursor to ‘EU Bond’
A feasibility study into sovereign bond-backed securities (SBSS), published by the European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB) has been slammed by Markus Ferber, German conservative...
SEC Fixed Income Committee: Debate on liquidity metrics
By Flora McFarlane.
The often narrow focus of liquidity metrics in research was raised as a concern by the first meeting of the Security and...
Potential SEC pilot programmes explored by new bond committee
The Securities and Exchange Commission’s Fixed Income Market Structure Advisory Committee (FIMSAC) explored the possibility of prescriptive intervention to accelerate bond market structure and...
Dark trading limits to apply from March after reporting failures
*Update* The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) will only apply the double volume cap (DVC) mechanism for trading European equities from March 2018,...
People’s Bank of China releases green bond certification guidelines
By Flora McFarlane.
The People’s Bank of China (PBoC) and China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) has released guidance on the development of the green bond...
New SEC Fixed Income Committee to cover liquidity issues this week
By Flora McFarlane.
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)’s Fixed Income Market Structure Advisory Committee, formed in November 2017, will hold its first meeting on...
