Dealers face crunch on platform trading costs
As bid-ask spreads tighten and fees rise, dealers question making markets in credit.
It does not take a quant to understand that tighter bid-ask spreads...
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...
Research: Fixed Income TCA Survey 2022
Better integration into trading workflow
The DESK’s execution research survey into fixed income TCA 2022.
Our research took in 40 major asset management firms’ use...
Survey: Are there missed opportunities in fixed income TCA?
Based on their own view of TCA success, buy-side traders could apply analytics to support trading and execution goals.
The DESK has found that fewer...
Meet the consolidated tape contenders
Europe’s development of a consolidated tape for trading data now has clear front runners, and benefits.
Three firms have confirmed they will compete to be...
Can TCA work for voice/chat credit trades?
Transaction cost analysis (TCA) – or execution quality analytics (EQA) – is a much sought after, but often objectively challenged, service in corporate bond...
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)...
Bloomberg forces SEC to provide cost analysis of primary issuance database
Bloomberg has had its case for the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), to provide an analysis of the costs for a primary bond...
MarketAxess industry viewpoint
Comparing portfolio trading and list RFQ TCA
By Gio Accurso, Grant Lowensohn and Jessica Hung, MarketAxess
Highlights and objectives
The MarketAxess Research team investigates any key...
“There is still an edge in systematic trading”
Systematic trading is often associated with highly liquid instruments, but asset managers have outlined success stories in less liquid debt markets, at the Fixed...
