Morgan Stanley: Portfolio trading volumes have grown by 56% in 2020
Research by Morgan Stanley’s market strategist team has found that use of portfolio trading in the US corporate bond market has increased by 56%...
Editorial: Asset managers wilt as banks impose hose-pipe ban
In the UK, during dry conditions, the government bans the public from using hosepipes in order to conserve water. In 2022, the sell side...
Credit is climbing, but unevenly
Analysis by S&P Global Market Intelligence charts the rise of credit markets over the past year, and finds index levels are by 10-15% of...
Rates : Trading protocols : Dan Barnes
The new Treasuries protocols
Breaking away from the request-for-quote protocol could allow for tighter pricing without information leakage.
Traders engaged in the US Treasury (UST) markets...
BoE’s limited window could punish the gilt-y
The Bank of England’s limited UK government bond (gilt) purchase operations have been confirmed to close on Friday, putting tight brackets around buy-side firms’...
MarketAxess muni offerings incorporated into Investortools Dealer Network
Fixed-income electronic trading platform MarketAxess has expanded its municipal bond integration with the Investortools’ platform, the latest phase of its Financial Information eXchange (FIX)...
How Fed bond buying is impacting markets
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York is hoovering up assets in order to support corporate borrowing in the US, and subsequently creating some...
FILS 2021: Buy-side needs to make more noise for the right data
Data providers and regulators concur that the buy-side needs to communicate more clearly with politicians and suppliers if they are to get baseline bond...
Falling emerging market liquidity costs reversed with Fed concerns
Traders in hard currency fixed income emerging markets have seen a decline in the costs of liquidity this year, according to data from MarketAxess’s...
SEC proposes new central clearing rules for US Treasury market
US market regulator, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has proposed rule changes to enhance risk management practices for central counterparties in the US...
