Carney condemns fragmentation of CCPs
By Flora McFarlane.
In his annual Mansion House speech on 20 June, Mark Carney argued against breaking up trading infrastructure, after the recent European Commission’s...
O’Kelly appointed head trader at RPMI Railpen as it insources trading
RPMI Railpen, which represents the UK’s railway workers pension fund, has hired Tom O’Kelly as head trader. The scheme manages around £30 billion for...
Industry viewpoint: Automation – the road ahead
The DESK talks with Steve Toland, co-Founder of TransFICC about developments in fixed income workflow automation, what factors are driving this and why this...
BIS: Cut your trading costs in half by cosying up to dealers
A new working paper, written by the Monetary and Economic Department of the Bank of International Settlements, has found that dealer relationships are crucial...
ICE freezes bond indices until 30th April
The Intercontinental Exchange’s (ICE’s) ICE Data Indices (IDI) has postponed the rebalancing of all the ICE and ICE BofA indices for bond, preferred and...
OTCX registers as MTF as UK trading venue perimeter rules begin
Derivatives trading venue OTCX has been registered as a multilateral trading facility (MTF) in the UK, in the week that the UK’s Financial Conduct...
FINRA reporting change could support low-touch trading at size
A proposed pilot project for raising the size at which US bond trades must be reported, and delaying reporting for even larger trades, could...
Tradeweb saw ADV hit US$1 trillion in January 2021
Market operator Tradeweb has reported its total trading volume for January was US$20 trillion across its electronic marketplaces for rates, credit, equities and money...
Meraki Global Advisors hires fixed income trader from Loomis, Sayles, & Company
Meraki Global Advisors has hired Meghan Siripurapu as a managing director at the firm’s Park City Headquarters in the USA, to meet the growing...
Implied cost of liquidity falling, with US high yield an exception
Volumes in the corporate bond markets have been picking back up, relative to bid-ask spreads, indicating an improving liquidity picture across the US and...