Swaps

Insight Investment named collateral manager and collateral valuation agent for £1.7 billion longevity swap

Insight Investment, an investment manager with £683 billion (€778.3 billion) assets under management, has been appointed as collateral manager and collateral valuation agent for...

Tradeweb’s October volumes reflect turbulence in European and US markets

Tradeweb, the market operator across rates, credit, equities and money markets, has reported an average daily volume (ADV) for the month of US$1.05 trillion,...

November’s bumper month for fixed income e-trading

Electronic trading platforms have reported a bumper November for fixed income trading, with CME reporting interest rate average daily volume (ADV) up by 42%;...

IRS electronification: 20 years in the making

With the 20th anniversary of Tradeweb’s interest rate swaps (IRS) marketplace around the corner, the firm’s head of US institutional Rates, Bhas Nalabothula, looks...

MTS and Wematch.live launch digital marketplace for interest rate swaps

MTS, the European electronic fixed income platform owned by Euronext, and Wematch, the tech firm that provides buy- and sell-side firms' dealing workflow systems,...

Pre-fight analysis: The weigh-in for CME vs FMX

The launch of FMX, the derivatives exchange chaired by Howard Lutnick, CEO of interdealer broker and services provider BGC Group, sets out a potentially...

Dealers warned about counterparty credit risk by ECB head

Using a blog post, Andrea Enria, chair of the Supervisory Board of the European Central Bank (ECB) has highlighted risks facing the sell-side around...

People’s Bank of China sets out northbound rules for Swap Connect

The People's Bank of China has issued interim measures to standardise the interest rate swap market between the mainland and Hong Kong, protecting investor...

Getting the most out of derivatives in credit

Bond investing has become more exciting in the past two years than in the previous ten, with interest rates and central bank activity fire-fighting...