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...
ECB warns ‘dark trading’ may cement bond market fragmentation
A paper by the European Central Bank (ECB), entitled ‘Dark pools in European equity markets: emergence, competition and implications’ has advised firms to be...
The reward of risk
By Larry E. Fondren, Founder & CEO, DelphX Capital Markets Inc.
Traditional risk/reward comparisons treat the effective cost of an investment’s risk as a decrement...
Securities Financing : India : Lynn Strongin Dodds
India’s lacklustre corporate bond market gets a boost.
Lynn Strongin Dodds looks at government initiatives and stock exchanges efforts to bring the market to life.
The...
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...
AXA IM confirms it is offering outsourced trading
AXA Investment Managers has confirmed it has begun to offer outsourced trading to smaller firms.
“Due to the squeezing of margins and the need for...
The Fed opens registration for commercial paper facility
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York has opened registration for firms wishing to sell to its Commercial Paper Funding Facility (CPFF).
The commercial paper...
BondCliQ’s new portfolio trade reporting changes understanding of volumes and counterparties
Market data solutions provider, BondCliQ, will be launching a dynamic weekly report which aggregates and analyses data on US portfolio trading (PT) from TRACE,...
Securities financing: SFTR threatens smaller players
By Lynn Strongin Dodds.
The delay to the regulation gives market participants more breathing room but they should not get too comfortable. Lynn Strongin Dodds looks...
Tradeweb implements block trading in Chinese bonds on Bond Connect
By Pia Hecher.
Bond trading operator platform Tradeweb Markets has launched block trading functionality in Chinese yuan (CNY) bonds on Bond Connect, the mutual market...
