Secular vs cyclical: How e-trading, issuance and credit spreads align with liquidity
Primary markets are a crucial source of liquidity in secondary markets, as new issues trigger a round of buying and selling activity for newly...
“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...
Quantum computing ‘breakthrough’ has “more red flags than a People’s Liberation Army parade”
The claim by HSBC that noise in an IBM quantum computer helped deliver a 34% improvement in algorithmic trading performance has been disputed by...
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...
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...
Crunch on liquidity costs
As bid-ask spreads begin to widen on both sides of the Atlantic, buy-side credit traders need to reassess how to best manage the crunch...
Inflows to EM debt beta funds could change trading patterns
Emerging market (EM) exchange traded funds (ETFs) have seen cumulative inflows of US$1.9 billion year to date, according to analysis by Morgan Stanley, while...
IRS electronification: 20 years in the making
With the 20th anniversary of Tradeweb’s interest rate swaps (IRS) marketplace around the corner, the firm’s head of US institutional Rates, Bhas Nalabothula, looks...
