Agency Broker Hub: Business discontinuity
Business discontinuity: an ongoing threat for financial markets stability
By Lorenzo Bracchi and Monica Moschioni, Market Hub, IMI Corporate & Investment Banking, Intesa Sanpaolo
Financial markets have...
FTSE Russell weighs country accessibility for fixed income traders
FTSE Russell, the index and data firm, is introducing a country classification process for fixed income. The newly introduced fixed income framework, which is...
Tannenbaum leads EMEA CIB at BofA as IB fees slip
Jeff Tannenbaum has been named head of EMEA corporate and investment banking at Bank of America. He is based in London.
Bank of America reported...
The cost of European liquidity is falling, does e-trading beckon?
Good news for buy-side traders in European credit markets. Looking at MarketAxess Trax, which tracks trading across multiple markets and counterparties, bid-ask spreads are...
FILS in Barcelona: If the future is futures, what happens when the market is...
Moving liquidity from the spot or cash markets into futures is raising some concern amongst market participants. In FX, trading volume on the Thomson...
Clearstream and Euroclear move towards digitised Eurobond market
International central securities depositories (ICSDs) Clearstream and Euroclear have partnered to offer dematerialised Eurobond issuance from Q1 2026, removing the need for paper certificates.
The...
Trading: How to find liquidity in a drought
When market makers offer no bids for corporate bond trades, buy-side traders need to get creative.
Dealers are the main source of liquidity in the...
CME Group set to clear US cash Treasuries
A CME Group representative has confirmed to The DESK that the company is set to enter US Treasury clearing.
The news was first reported...
FILS in Barcelona: No clear resolution on data ownership but much good will
The challenges of data ownership and the commercial provision of data were tackled head on, at the Fixed Income Leaders Summit in Barcelona, with...
Europe avoids tariff panic, awaits US open as currency wobbles
Edging closer to US open, European and Asian markets are resisting panic, according to Eric Boess, global head of trading at Allianz GI.
“I was...
Asset managers could avoid tying up collateral under new uncleared margin rules
The majority of asset managers dragged into new uncleared margin requirements over the next two years could avoid tying up capital altogether, but still...
InvestorAccess reaches milestone with 500th institutional investor on board
IHS Markit reports it has onboarded the 500th institutional investor to its buy-side InvestorAccess community, the firm’s digital primary market platform.
InvestorAccess first launched in...
