Propellant Digital: A single tape is not enough
The move towards the consolidated tape is not a silver bullet
By Vidal Mehra, Chief Product Officer, Propellant Digital.
When the FCA and ESMA transparency regimes...
CME: Credit futures surge
Credit futures surge as investors seek capital-efficient risk tools
Credit futures are gaining traction among institutional investors as a capital-efficient way to manage corporate credit...
The UK’s Consolidated Tape: On track and going global
As the UK's fixed income consolidated tape prepares for its June launch, Sassan Danesh, CEO of Etrading Software, the Consolidated Tape Provider (CTP) for...
Propellant Digital: European credit became transparent overnight
What traders need to ask now?
By Vincent Grandjean, Founder & CEO, Propellant Digital.
The new FCA transparency regime went live on 1st December 2025 with an immediate...
Brett Chappell: Private credit is moving from obscure to intelligible
Framing private credit evolution with asset class models will mislead
Private credit is not special. It is simply another way of harvesting risk premia.
Recent headlines...
MTS: Clarity, not just transparency, on bond trading costs
How bond trading platforms are redefining cost efficiency in European fixed income
The cost of trading bonds has long been an opaque and contested arena....
TransFICC: Technology, efficiency, and the rise of liquidity outsourcing
Technology, Efficiency, and the Rise of Liquidity Outsourcing
By Tim Whipman, Head of Business Development at TransFICC
This article is the first in a quarterly series...
Roundtable debate: Can the market electronify block trades?
The efficiency of electronic trading has trade-offs for blocks based on information disclosure, leakage and trust.
Electronifying execution of larger bond orders is the ‘holy...
Brett Chappell: Low friction EM markets get an effective rate cut
Market structure, technology, and constraints are reshaping EM debt
Emerging markets (EM) are becoming central to where growth, issuance, and risk transfer occur in global...
The Bondcast: Dealing with Blocks
This is the Bondcast interview with Chris Egan of MarketAxess, to discuss the barriers to engagement in block trading today for dealers, and how...













