Analysis: Market response to US Treasury’s increased borrowing needs
The US Treasury’s need to increase debt issuance, beyond market expectations, has had several effects. Firstly there was a ratings downgrade of the USA...
Trivedi joins Nuveen Credit Strategies Income Fund, expanding asset allocation
Nuveen Credit Strategies Income Fund has seen the firm’s head of structured credit, Himani Trivedi, appointed to the firm’s portfolio management team.
Trivedi is...
Parameta and ICAP launch interest rate swap volatility indices
Parameta Solutions, in partnership with ICAP G10 Rates, has launched a family of interest rate swap volatility indices designed to enhance the investment decision...
July 2023: Tradeweb sees total credit ADV jump 30% YoY in July driven by...
At Tradeweb, in July 2023, fully electronic US credit ADV was up 34.8% YoY to US$4.8 billion and European credit ADV was up 38.6%...
July 2023: MarketAxess sees mixed bond ADV results
MarketAxess sees mixed bond ADV results in July 2023, credit ADV up 8% YoY
MarketAxess has reported total credit average daily volume (ADV) of US$11.4...
LatAm sees e-trading momentum with support for all-to-all
In Latin America, 46% of trading in corporate hard currency bonds is conducted electronically, according to research by analyst firm Coalition Greenwich, compared to...
Derivatives: Credit default swaps – The revival
Applying innovation from corporate bond markets to credit derivatives trading could boost liquidity at a point of market stress.
Single-name credit default swaps (CDSs) provide...
Coalition Greenwich: Dealers holding long-dated bonds again; net Treasury positions double
Dealers are holding positive levels of longer-dated corporate bonds in their inventories again, and treasury bills drove volume growth in H1 2023, according to...
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...
7 Chord and Bonds.com partner to deliver executable pricing data
Bonds.com and predictive pricing and analytics firm 7 Chord have partnered to combine bonds.com’s executable pre-trade pricing data with BondDroid AI, 7 Chord's real-time...
