SMBC joins DirectBooks
DirectBooks, the capital markets consortium founded to make bond issuance more efficient, has seen SMBC Nikko Securities America, a member of SMBC Group, join...
Signalling risk in credit, if one counterparty is 50% volume
How do you avoid information leakage? Does this change if half the market is trading with a single counterparty? Knowing that electronic market maker,...
Why US and European exchanges face very different landscapes
While European authorities try to push more trading back onto stock exchanges, which have entered a period of consolidation, US regulators are angling for...
NEX Markets CEO questions Thomson Reuters price claim
By Pia Hecher.
Seth Johnson, chief executive officer of NEX Markets, operator of US Treasury marketplace BrokerTec, talks about the firm’s data distribution strategy, including...
IHS Markit: Investor Access doubles investor use
By Pia Hecher.
Information and analytics provider IHS Markit announced that 320 investment firms are participating on its Investor Access platform. The number of buy-side...
Bond platforms report record trading volumes for March
The March 2020 numbers are in for bond trading platforms MarketAxess and Tradeweb and both have seen record results, in a period that has...
Exclusive: Bloomberg and S&P Global Market Intelligence collaborate on bond issuance
Bloomberg and S&P Global Market Intelligence have launched an integrated solution to streamline the syndicated primary bond market lifecycle. Bond market issuance has historically...
OpenDoor reveals greatest challenge and a turbo-charged match rate
OpenDoor has revealed a significantly high match rate for asset managers on the all-to-all continuous order book it launched in January 2020, to replace...
Analysis: Impact of debt issuance on sell-side revenues in Q1
Strong bond issuance in the first quarter (Q1) is galvanising performance of debt capital market teams at investment banks, in turn creating optimism amongst...
Tradeweb in discussions to acquire Australian bond trading platform Yieldbroker
Tradeweb Markets, multi-asset market operator has said, “Tradeweb is in advanced discussions to acquire Yieldbroker, a leading Australian government bond and interest rate derivatives...
