SIFMA finds support for shift in benchmarking of 20-year US corporate bonds
The spread for many legacy 20-year US corporate bonds is benchmarked against the 30-year Treasury, but trade body SIFMA has found support for moving...
SSGA: Treasuries, convertibles and EM on the cards for 2019
By Vineet Naik.
State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) is predicting that US Treasuries, convertible bonds and emerging market (EM) debt will see increased investment in...
The trouble with Treasuries
The DESK asks Susan Estes, CEO, OpenDoor Trading LLC., for her insights into the US Treasuries market.
How would you describe the depth and width...
Fed’s Treasury Market Practices Group sheds light on March liquidity crisis
Minutes of the 31 March meeting of the Federal Reserve’s Treasury Market Practices Group (TMPG), including an update on a 19 March call between...
Ipreo growth ahead of rival banks Q1 platform launch
By Flora McFarlane and Dan Barnes.
A primary market offering is expected to be launched by a consortium of Citi, Goldman Sachs, and Wells Fargo...
Brokertec data shifts to Bloomberg with Reuters/Dealerweb data tie-up
By Shobha Prabhu Naik & Dan Barnes.
Bloomberg, the financial data provider, has launched a new data service that will take NEX’s BrokerTec US Treasuries...
November’s bumper month for fixed income e-trading
Electronic trading platforms have reported a bumper November for fixed income trading, with CME reporting interest rate average daily volume (ADV) up by 42%;...
CFTC & SEC: JP Morgan manipulated Treasuries market during flash crash period
US market regulators the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) have fined JP Morgan over US$920 million in penalties...
DirectBooks launches platform for issuance of US corporate bonds; European expansion on cards
DirectBooks, the sell-side consortium founded to increase efficiency in the bond issuance process, has launched its core service to try and simplify communication of...
BrokerTec launches dealer-to-client repo execution platform into US markets
Market operator BrokerTec, part of the CME Group, has made its dealer-to-client request-for-quote (RFQ) trading platform, BrokerTec Quote, available to the US repo market...