Internal crossing for US bond trading needs ‘principles-based’ approach
Buy-side firms have roundly supported Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposals to allow internal crossing of fixed income trades in the US market, however...
Houlihan Lokey boosts European team with Vieri Betti Guaraldi appointment
Houlihan Lokey has appointed Vieri Betti Guaraldi as a managing director of its capital markets group, part of its expansion of the European team.
In...
Issuance up in lower rated debt
Analysis by Morgan Stanley’s team has found that, despite the slowing down of bond issuance globally in August, the higher levels of activity in...
Portfolio trading just keeps growing
Portfolio trading has grown so much, so quickly that it’s even surprised us. When we first launched the functionality, which allows traders to package...
Exclusive: MarketAxess trials new mid-point session protocol Mid-X
On Tuesday, MarketAxess ran the first session of a new mid-point matching tool, Mid-X, with over 50 participants. The new trading protocol is session-based...
Ballooning margin costs hobble US treasury basis trade returns, research finds
Institutional investors betting on yield spread fluctuations between US treasuries are facing ballooning margin costs, new research from derivatives analytics firm OpenGamma reveals.
Rising margin...
Treasuries HFT hack test results released
The impact of a simulated cyberattack on a high-frequency trading (HFT) firm in the US Treasury (UST) market has been released by the Treasury...
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Eurex: EMIR 3.0, are you ready?
EMIR 3.0 active accounts are set to change the European clearing landscape: are you ready?
Matthias Graulich, chief strategy officer and Executive Board Member,...
BNY Mellon adds agency MBS to new DTCC cleared repo sponsored member programme
US post-trade market infrastructure giant, the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), has launched its Sponsored General Collateral (GC) Service, a new offering from...
Power to the people
New trading protocols can create paths to best execution or confound it through complexity. Chris Hall reports.
“Every nation gets the government it deserves” was...
LSEG selling MTS and Borsa Italiana for €4.325 billion to Euronext
London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) has sold Borsa Italiana to Euronext for €4.325 billion, including bond trading marketplace MTS, which was a condition of...
The Agency Broker Hub: When multi-execution means best execution
Umberto Menconi, head of Digital Markets Structures, Market Hub, Intesa Sanpaolo IMI CIB Division
In fixed income markets how do different execution models (principal, matching, agency)...
