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...
In uncertain times, corporate bond traders seek certainty of execution
Portfolio trading has emerged as a go-to mechanism to buy or sell many bonds at once.
Traders want the best price - but they also...
Symphony’s new president outlines his vision
Brad Levy, the new president and chief commercial officer (CCO) of Symphony, the capital markets communication network, has outlined his vision of the company’s...
Office of Financial Research: Treasury basis trades could pose systemic risk
A new paper from the Office of Financial Research (OFR) has cast doubt on the idea that basis trades increased the lack of liquidity...
Tradeweb sees volume drop in June
Bond market operator, Tradeweb, has reported its average daily volume (ADV) in June was US$780.9 billion (bn), a decrease of 8.9% year-on-year (YoY), largely...
UniCredit and ACTIAM join Trad-X’s dealer-to-client platform
Trad-X, the trading platform for interest rate derivatives, has added UniСredit as a dealer and ACTIAM as a non-dealer to its dealer-to-client (D2C) electronic...
Under the skin of new US crossing rules
Crossing trades internally would have saved US investors many millions in March. Dan Barnes reports.
US market regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is...
OpenDoor launches all-to-all dark pool for on-the-run US Treasuries
OpenDoor Securities has launched an all-to-all marketplace for on-the-run (OTR) US Treasuries. The anonymous order book will US Treasury venue to offer non-discriminatory pricing in benchmarks...
E-trading ‘outpaced’ voice for some traders in liquidity crisis
The market has evolved valuable alternatives to traditional dealer liquidity.
Electronic trading was tested in the March 2020 sell-off, and it held up well. But, most...
Wellington: Internal crossing could have saved US$10-15 million
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) sub-committee the Fixed Income Market Structure Advisory Committee (FIMSAC), has unanimously passed a proposal to support internal crossing...
