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...
Bond platforms report record trading volumes for March
The March 2020 numbers are in for bond trading platforms MarketAxess and Tradeweb and both have seen record results, in a period that has...
Tradeweb to acquire Nasdaq’s eSpeed central limit order book
Electronic bond market operator, Tradeweb, has agreed to buy Nasdaq’s US fixed income electronic trading platform. The Nasdaq interdealer platform, formerly known as eSpeed,...
Greenwich Associates: Buy side negative on CLOB for US treasuries
By Flora McFarlane.
Only 16% of buy-side firms thought using a central limit order book (CLOBs) would have a positive impact on trading US treasuries,...
Morgan Stanley: Portfolio trading volumes have grown by 56% in 2020
Research by Morgan Stanley’s market strategist team has found that use of portfolio trading in the US corporate bond market has increased by 56%...
When will T2S harmonise European bond issuance?
Target 2 for Securities (T2S), the ambitious brainchild of the European Central Bank (ECB) and Eurosystem, has the potential to lower the costs of...
B2Scan closes down
B2Scan, the pre-trade liquidity data platform for bond markets, has shut down after eight years. The CEO and founder of B2Scan, Frédéric Semour, was...
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...
Trading desk efficiency benchmark 2016
This primary research offers traders a view of trading operations within their peer group, to benchmark against their own.
This research is a snapshot of...
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...
