Nicholas Stephan joins Liquidnet’s fixed income team
Market operator Liquidnet, has appointed of Nicholas Stephan as global head of fixed income product, services and dealer relations. The appointment is the latest...
CUSIP requests indicate municipal borrowing to rise, corporate to fall
CUSIP Global Services (CGS) has found a significant surge in request volume for new municipal bond identifiers, and a significant decline in request for...
Connectivity platforms report FI deals ahead of MiFID II
By Sobia Hamid.
The growth of electronic trading in fixed income is driving connectivity between trading platforms. In 2016, Greenwich Associates estimated electronic trading of...
Raiffeisen partners with AxeTrading and Integral to boost bond trading efficiency
Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI) has partnered with AxeTrading, the fixed income trading software company, and Integral, the FX technology provider, to deliver a new...
DirectBooks names team and launches advisory committee
DirectBooks, a sell-side consortium designing systems for the primary bond market, has named Yvonne Wang as chief operating officer, and Christopher Rodriguez as global...
Platform volumes in May up on 2019 levels
Market operator MarketAxess has seen a monthly trading volume for May 2020 of US$520 billion consisting of $229 billion in credit volume and $291...
Eurex and Newedge veteran joins bond issuance fintech
Jean-Luc Savignac has been named USA country manager at Onbrane, a negotiation and issuance platform, aiming at tokenising debt products and managing their life...
Pre-fight analysis: The weigh-in for CME vs FMX
The launch of FMX, the derivatives exchange chaired by Howard Lutnick, CEO of interdealer broker and services provider BGC Group, sets out a potentially...
IHS Markit: Investor Access doubles investor use
By Pia Hecher.
Information and analytics provider IHS Markit announced that 320 investment firms are participating on its Investor Access platform. The number of buy-side...
Portfolio trading just keeps growing
Portfolio trading has grown so much, so quickly that it’s even surprised us. When we first launched the functionality, which allows traders to package...
