Tangible returns from bond trade automation
Adoption of automated trading continues apace across several bond markets and within different grades of instrument. Gareth Coltman, global head of automation at MarketAxess,...
How the Trumid takeover will affect Electronifie traders
All-to-all US bond trading platform Trumid has agreed to buy fellow all-to-all trading platform Electronifie. Upon closing, the deal will mean the Trumid user...
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...
SEC requests comment on evolution of buy-side internal crossing rules
The US Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Investment Management Staff has published a statement to elicit feedback on ways to enhance its regulatory...
Deutsche Bank launches new FIC coverage model
Deutsche Bank has set up a new coverage model for its fixed income and currencies (FIC) sales team, intended to be more tailored to...
Bloomberg: No charge for buy-side fixed income trading
Bloomberg has quashed rumours that buy-side traders are to be charged for fixed income trading in 2021. Buy-side traders had reported to The DESK...
Liberty Street Economics: Active trading could drive loan standardisation
By Flora McFarlane.
A Liberty Street Economics report analysing the US secondary loan market has found that increased trading and liquidity will potentially standardise loans.
The...
The credit trading processes you really should have automated by now…
Automation has historically been highly challenging in corporate bond markets for several reasons, but traders say some parts of the workflow ‘ought’ to be...
FSB: Greater transparency, all-to-all trading and clearing could reduce rates markets dislocation
A paper by the Financial Stability Board (FSB), which coordinates international regulatory efforts to promote effective policies, has reported that dealer blame uncertainty over...
Liquidnet expands continental Europe coverage
Block trading specialist Liquidnet, part of the TP ICAP Group, has expanded its continental European coverage by deploying specialists in equities and fixed income...
