Trading mechanics

ICMA: Buy side struggled to make margin calls as repo dried up

A new report, ‘European repo market and the COVID-19 crisis’ published by the International Capital Markets Association, has found that some buy-side firms had...

Update: How big is portfolio trading?

In November 2020, we assessed the prevailing research on the size of portfolio trading in the corporate bond market. A new report from Coalition...

Rules & Ratings: S&P warns on forecast uncertainty

S&P Global Ratings has said it believes a high degree of unpredictability exists around policy implementation by the US administration and possible responses regarding...

OpenDoor launches all-to-all platform in US Treasury market

OpenDoor Securities has launched a trading platform focussed on the less liquid segments of the US Treasury bond market. Nearly three dozen firms representing...

PBoC & HKMA: No investment quota for northbound Bond Connect trade

The People’s Bank of China (PBoC) and the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) have given their approval to the local market infrastructure providers to...

MarketAxess hit 21.5% of investment grade TRACE volume in Q2

Fixed-income market and infrastructure operator, MarketAxess, has seen revenues for the second quarter of 2020 increase 47% year-on-year (YoY) to US$184.8 million, up from...

Neptune providing real-time bond inventory data to Charles River

Charles River Development and Neptune Networks are collaborating to provide buy-side clients of Charles River’s Order and Execution Management System (OEMS) with aggregated, real-time...

Mizuho EMEA joins Neptune to distribute real-time axe data

Mizuho EMEA has joined Neptune Networks, the fixed income network for disseminating real-time axe data. Neptune delivers axes from 32 of the leading dealers...

List trading goes live on MTS BondsPro all-to-all order book

MTS Markets , part of London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), has added list trading functionality to its MTS BondsPro corporate bond trading platform, enabling...