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MarketAxess loses grip on US credit e-trading

At the end of last month, MarketAxess was acquired by ICE and announced that it would no longer publish its monthly statistics. Data from...

Commentary: Inside the fixed income ETF primary market

By Alex Evangeli The ecosystem that powers fixed income ETF trading is more complex than the simplicity of trading the product suggests. Behind the...

Emerging market bond liquidity erodes as trade counts fall sharply

Emerging market bond volumes have fallen every quarter of 2026 and trade counts are down by more than a quarter, according to MarketAxess data...

BofA’s Sonali Theisen: Digital Assets Boost Fixed Income Efficiency

Digital assets have the potential to fundamentally reshape institutional markets via 24/7 trading, near-instant settlement, lower capital costs, and programmable infrastructure. As this evolution...

Acadian’s Michael Doros on the future of systematic credit trading

As credit markets become increasingly electronic, systematic managers are gaining new opportunities to scale research, improve execution, and optimize portfolios in real time. Traders...

Tradeweb brings spread trading to European credit portfolios

Tradeweb has launched spread trading for European credit portfolios. Institutional investors are able to negotiate pricing in data points relative to a government bond benchmark,...

Credit Commentary: Credit calm masks a trillion-dollar AI issuance wave

Credit calm masks a trillion-dollar AI issuance wave By Janaka Ariyasena, HY Credit Trader and Portfolio Manager. Ex Seaport Europe and Rubrics Asset Management. Credit markets...

Will credit transparency beget credit liquidity?

After years of false starts and fragmented post-trade reporting, the fixed income markets in the UK and Europe are on the cusp of a...

Bloomberg and DirectBooks collaborate on primary market workflows

Bloomberg and DirectBooks have announced a collaboration on automated primary bond market workflows is now live. The collaboration brings together DirectBooks and TSOX, Bloomberg’s fixed...