Big names out at BGC
Interdealer broker BGC Partners has made a wave of job cuts, as announced in April, which combined with recent departures has removed several heads...
ESMA reports improving credit risk but Overbond warns on liquidity risk
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has released its latest ‘Trends, Risks and Vulnerabilities’ (TRV) report, finding that fixed income markets continued to...
Opening the black box: SOLVE’s new AI claims to predict ‘next-trade’ bond prices
SOLVE, provider of pre-trade quotes data across fixed income markets, has rolled out an artificial intelligence platform (AI) that is designed to predict the...
TORA’s OEMS integrates with Liquidnet’s IA Trader
Trading systems provider TORA has integrated its order and execution management system (OEMS) with a global institutional investment network, Liquidnet’s IA Trader. The integration...
JWG: Cloud is “large systemic technology risk blind spot”
JWG, the regulatory think tank, has published a research paper ‘Risk control for a digitized financial sector’ which claims to identify a large systemic...
Natwest Markets trading desk automating fixed income trading workflow with ipushpull
Natwest Markets has implemented a new PPQ (Pushpull Quotes) workflow system to streamline manual workflow around non-standard, complex trades such as fixed income trading.
Matthew...
Could OpenFin be as big as Bloomberg?
Connectivity between technologies and between trading participants is a perennial problem for bond trading desks. Hooking up with a new trading platform or service...
Orderly sell-off despite Bund bid-ask spread blow out
Borrowing costs for the German government spiked after an announcement of increased expenditure for its military, triggering a sell-off in German government bonds (bunds)...
High Yield issuance is taking off
Comparing corporate bond issuance volumes for 2023 and 2024, we can see that the pattern is frequently a high start to the year, with...
FIX issues guide for MiFID II reporting of bond trades
By Flora McFarlane.
FIX Trading Community, which sets the messaging standard for trading messages sent between buy-side and sell-side firms, has published the final Recommended...
