Argentina’s battle for control
Argentina’s bond markets have been notoriously challenging for investors. Twenty years after the country underwent a major debt restructuring, and just five years after...
Credit futures see OI and ADV increase more than sevenfold YoY
The adoption of credit futures as a mainstream credit trading vehicle is broadening across venues and currencies: US$ iBoxx total return based futures traded...
What Mexico’s vol risk means for trading LatAm bonds
In Latin American (LatAm) markets, economic volatility may transfer into market volatility – most notably in Mexico.
In order to manage risk and seize opportunities...
Trade size growth undercuts European bond market ‘equitification’
Since 2023 European corporate bond markets have seen trades size grow, as trading platforms report increasing volumes
“If we break down electronic trading growth in European...
Traders welcome India’s bond e-trading evolution as regulator shows teeth
The Indian bond market provides a conundrum for investment traders, who fight to gain access to liquidity and pricing information on behalf of their...
EM traders ride out the chaos
It would be understandable if trading in emerging markets (EM) debt were becoming more expensive as risk increased in many markets it makes up,...
Signalling risk in credit, if one counterparty is 50% volume
How do you avoid information leakage? Does this change if half the market is trading with a single counterparty? Knowing that electronic market maker,...
Electronification of US credit delivers resilience
The electronification of the US corporate bond markets has demonstrated that its improved efficiency has strengthened depth of liquidity provision, rather than made it...
Treasury futures fight intensifies between FMX and CME
The US Fixed Income Leaders Summit 2025 showcased the fierce rivalry in the US treasury futures space, between incumbent giant exchange CME and upstart...
Portfolio trading proves transformational, but controversial
The US market has been transformed by portfolio trading (PT) this year, with estimates that PT makes up somewhere between 25-40% of dealer-to-client (D2C)...
