Technology: The real reason you cannot get a new trading system
Lynn Strongin Dodds investigates the barriers to adopting new technology.
Technological advances may be developing at breakneck speed but many of the barriers of adoption...
Algomi/Euroclear deal may open access to 373,000 bonds
Pre-trade data provider Algomi has significantly extended the universe of bonds for which it can publish trading opportunities, by signing a new agreement with...
Aligning the pre-trade credit liquidity picture and the execution goal
Pre-trade data and market colour are imperative for buy-side traders looking to achieve best execution in corporate bond markets. Understanding how that applies to...
Repurchase disagreements
A calamitous year-end in 2016 has put the broken repo market firmly in the spotlight. Lynn Strongin Dodds reports.
December 2016 saw Europe’s repurchase agreement...
Money markets begin to tail off as rates fall
Reviewing the second quarter activity in primary markets and fund flows, we see the total notional outstanding in US fixed income totalled US$45.3 trillion,...
BGC buys embonds, lay-offs confirmed
Interdealer broker BGC has confirmed its May 2018 acquisition of emerging markets bond trading platform embonds, while several sources close to the firm have...
Trading: Regulatory overreach onto the trading desk
Complaints about regulators expanding rules for equity markets into fixed income are rising on both sides of the Atlantic.
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)...
Portfolio trading on the up: fixed income electronifies and sell-side sentiment down, says valantic/Acuiti
Sell-side fixed income participants are witnessing the deepening electronification of fixed income markets, according to a report from Acuiti in association with valantic FSA.
As...
Editorial: Dealer consortium or dealer cartel?
A class-action lawsuit case alleging cartel behaviour by six prime brokers who “vacuum up 60% or more of the revenue generated by stock loan...
ICE Bonds sees record notional volume for portfolio trading
Market operator, Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), has reported record volumes for fixed income portfolio trading during the fourth quarter of 2020.
Over US$1.9 billion in US-based...
