Trading Intentions Survey: Data and protocol innovation are the battlegrounds for credit trading
The 2026 Trading Intentions Survey has found that data is the most hotly-contested field in supporting corporate bond trading today, while analysis of trading...
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Bloomberg ditches auto-copy for RUNZ messages
Bloomberg has stopped users auto-copying RUNZ messages to other recipients, “to enhance sender control over RUNZ pricing distribution,” from 18 March 2026.
A RUNZ formatted...
J.P. Morgan Execute powers the future of e-trading
Close teamwork is seamlessly delivering sophisticated services to the users of J.P. Morgan’s Execute platform.
J.P. Morgan’s Execute platform has 4,000 users globally, and facilitates...
Are bigger trades always better?
Average trade sizes appear to have been increasing in corporate bond markets in recent years. Superficially this might suggest a greater dealer capacity to...
Why humans give the best execution
Understanding best execution requires an understanding that both explicit and implicit costs can have a serious impact on investment goals, and these often reach...
Aligning the pre-trade credit liquidity picture and the execution goal
Pre-trade data and market colour are imperative for buy-side traders looking to achieve best execution in corporate bond markets. Understanding how that applies to...
“A fixed income price is not a fact. A fixed income price is an...
David LaRusso is the head of fixed income trading at Dimensional Fund Advisors, and has just celebrated his 25th anniversary at the firm. The...
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,...
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...
European bid-ask credit spreads not assuaged by tariff roll back
Liquidity costs in European corporate bond trading remain elevated, after the tariff shock in early April saw bid-ask spreads widen significantly across markets, according...
