ICE Bonds and BlackRock Aladdin offer fixed income portfolio auction to buy side
Market operator Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), has integrated its ICE Bonds integrated with BlackRock’s Aladdin portfolio and order management system (OMS) to offer access to...
Meraki Global Advisors hires fixed income trader from Loomis, Sayles, & Company
Meraki Global Advisors has hired Meghan Siripurapu as a managing director at the firm’s Park City Headquarters in the USA, to meet the growing...
Trading: Loans and ABS: The fixed income markets time forgot
Trading in the less liquid parts of the fixed income market has remained relatively untouched by electronification.
Loans and securitised products backed by loans can...
The unspoken truth about US Treasuries
Susan Estes, co-founder, CEO & President at OpenDoor speaks to The DESK and exposes the hidden risks within the US Treasury market for institutional investors.
Dealer business...
Reform of TRACE reporting urged as portfolio trading rises
Portfolio trading, in which baskets of securities are exchanged with bank in single deals, has been growing in popularity as it gives certainty over...
Pre-trade data demand grows and platform concentration weakens
The 5th Annual Trading Intentions Survey sees a hunger for data and a surge in new liquidity tools.
Key takeaways:
• Massive growth for crossing / mid-point...
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MarketAxess Mid-X launches in US
MarketAxess has made Mid-X, its anonymous session-based matching protocol, live for US market participants after its initial launch in Q4 2020 with European participants.
The...
Federal Reserve group issues credit risk warning over US Treasuries trading
By Pia Hecher.
The Federal Reserve’s Treasury Market Practices Group (TMPG), which discusses issues in the US government bond market, has said that firms are...
FILS USA 2023: Market volatility has tested e-trading and instrument selection
Having had a challenging and volatile first half of the year from a liquidity perspective, not least because of a crisis in US and...
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...














