MarketAxess hit 21.5% of investment grade TRACE volume in Q2
Fixed-income market and infrastructure operator, MarketAxess, has seen revenues for the second quarter of 2020 increase 47% year-on-year (YoY) to US$184.8 million, up from...
AxeTrading and Mosaic Smart Data collaborate on bond market analytics
AxeTrading, the fixed income trading software provider, and Mosaic Smart Data, the real-time capital markets data analytics company, are integrating the AxeTrader execution management...
BlackRock sees rising fixed income allocations
By Pia Hecher.
BlackRock has reported that 38% of buy-side firms intend to increase fixed income allocations in 2019, up from 29% last year.
The firm’s...
OpenDoor nets US$10 million in continuing push for growth
By Flora McFarlane.
New Jersey-based startup trading platform OpenDoor Securities has completed a third US$10 million investment round, which will facilitate new front office hires...
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...
In 2021 we see record secondary markets trading for European Government...
By Emile Figueiras, European Government Bond Product Specialist, MarketAxess
Secondary market volumes in European government bonds (EGBs) have grown significantly over the last 2 years....
ICE Data Services: Bond defaults double in Q2
ICE Data Services has seen the level of defaults for bonds double in Q2 2019 to US$7.183 billion, up from US$2.616 billion in Q1...
Banque de Luxembourg integrates MarketAxess’ Axess IQ order and execution workflow
Banque de Luxembourg, the private banking and wealth management group, has gone live with Axess IQ, the order and execution workflow system by bond...
What’s big, green and keeps traders busy?
Bond issuance sizes in the ESG space are growing, and the average size of the deals are growing too. The proportion of benchmark-sized deals...
Barnes on Bonds: Primary Gilt Trip
To see political risk writ large in financial markets, look no further than the UK. While Rishi Sunak has won the race to be...
