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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...

Exclusive: Cboe goes live with US Treasury trading

Cboe has gone live with cash Treasury trading, the first trade having been conducted in mid-October. It is operating a ‘Full Amount’ execution protocol...

Analysing concern around Japan’s government bond issuance and interdealer inefficiency

The appointment of Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) leader Sanae Takaichi as the country’s first female prime minister has drawn comparisons with two of the...

AxeTrading expands modelling and pricing tools; builds out FX and futures

AxeTrading, the fixed income trading software provider, has launched version 5 of AxeTrader, its fixed-income trading system for sell-side and buy-side firms. This latest...

Tradeweb reports US$18.5 trillion traded in September

Market operator Tradeweb has reported a total trading volume for September of US$18.5 trillion, with an average daily volume (ADV) for the month of...

Port in a storm: Asian international bond markets resilient amid volatility

Volatile interest rates, a fractious geopolitical landscape, and rumbles in the Chinese property sector. Despite these headwinds, the international bond markets in Asia were...

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Hargreaves Lansdown offers retail investors access to gilts in primary market

Hargreaves Lansdown is giving its clients access to Debt Management Office (DMO) Gilt auctions. Tim Jacobs, head of primary markets, Hargreaves Lansdown, says, “This...

Brokertec data shifts to Bloomberg with Reuters/Dealerweb data tie-up

By Shobha Prabhu Naik & Dan Barnes. Bloomberg, the financial data provider, has launched a new data service that will take NEX’s BrokerTec US Treasuries...