Could the ICE-MarketAxess tie-up intensify battle for US credit e-trading?
As US credit trading becomes increasingly electronic, could ICE’s planned acquisition of MarketAxess further intensify competition among e-trading platforms? Trader TV speaks to Lucy...
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...
