In uncertain times, corporate bond traders seek certainty of execution
Portfolio trading has emerged as a go-to mechanism to buy or sell many bonds at once.
Traders want the best price - but they also...
CMA: ION takeover of Broadway looks likely
The UK’s Competition and Market’s Authority (CMA) has reported there are “reasonable grounds for believing that the undertakings offered by ION, or a...
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...
Feedback on Tradeweb ICE Constant Maturity Treasury Rates requested by 18...
Fixed income market operator Tradeweb has published a paper along with Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) Benchmark Administration (IBA) introducing the daily Tradeweb ICE Constant Maturity...
Citadel confirms Chang to join in September
Citadel has confirmed that Isaac Chang, the head of trading at AQR Capital Management since 2016, will join the Citadel hedge fund in September...
Lipper: Bond funds come roaring back (with Fed’s help)
Refinitiv Lipper has seen a bounce back for bond funds in Q2 2020 after they suffered losses of -4.3% and outflows of US$208.9 billion...
Tradeweb sees volume drop in June
Bond market operator, Tradeweb, has reported its average daily volume (ADV) in June was US$780.9 billion (bn), a decrease of 8.9% year-on-year (YoY), largely...
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...
Aegon Asset Management appoints global CIO for fixed income
Aegon Asset Management has appointed Russ Morrison as its new global chief investment officer responsible for managing its €170 (US $188) billion fixed income...
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...
