CME Group completes migration of BrokerTec trading platform to CME Globex
Market operator CME Group has migrated the US Treasuries trading and US repo functions of BrokerTec business to its CME Globex platform. This follows...
Reading between the lines of JP Morgan’s e-Trading Survey 2023
JP Morgan’s e-Trading Survey has tracked a substantial shift in capital markets priorities as worsening liquidity, central bank activity and economic fragility overtake COVID,...
Amber Wright to lead new R.J. O’Brien initiatives on fixed income and multi-asset electronic...
Futures brokerage and clearing firm R.J. O’Brien has appointed Amber Wright to executive director, global head of fixed income rates and e-trading sales, with...
Daniel Collins swaps gold for rates at Aurel BGC
Daniel Collins has joined Aurel BGC to head up its futures and options (F&O) rates team in Dubai, a month after winning a gold...
Treasury futures open interest shows record uncertainty; surpasses 17 million contracts
Derivatives market operator, CME Group, reports that open interest (OI) in its US Treasury futures reached a record 17,222,551 contracts on 12 May, the...
Office of Financial Research: Treasury basis trades could pose systemic risk
A new paper from the Office of Financial Research (OFR) has cast doubt on the idea that basis trades increased the lack of liquidity...
Surprise at inaccurate US election poll predictions has increased volatility
With a victory for either side being far from clear in the US election, investment commentators have warned of sustained volatility across asset classes....
UniCredit and ACTIAM join Trad-X’s dealer-to-client platform
Trad-X, the trading platform for interest rate derivatives, has added UniСredit as a dealer and ACTIAM as a non-dealer to its dealer-to-client (D2C) electronic...
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...
