What bouncing US credit volumes tell us in June
Looking at corporate bond trading volumes over the past two weeks, data from MarketAxess appeared to show a recovery since levels plummeted in May...
Market Structure: New risk and liquidity in the US Treasury market
Significant changes in counterparties and market structure have transformed US Treasury market activity.
Dealer-to-client trading has overtaken interdealer markets in volume traded according to analyst...
Tradeweb and MarketAxess see credit volumes increase over 25% in December
Market operators MarketAxess and Tradeweb have released their December trading levels, with both seeing a monthly increase of 25% in credit trading average daily...
European Markets Choice Awards 2022 – The Winners
Last night, Markets Media held its first in person European Markets Choice Awards event in London to celebrate the accomplishment of everyone who works...
Data analytics is nothing without the people who use it
We are in the midst of a data analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) hype cycle. Every week yields a crop of new articles on...
Viewpoint: Why bond traders are changing their habits
Informed traders are discovering that newer approaches to executing trades are more successful than older, habitual paths.
The DESK spoke with Max Callaghan of MarketAxess...
On The Desk: Jim Switzer: On taking control
The AllianceBernstein credit trading desk has been refocused to handle market fragmentation and the withdrawal of dealer liquidity, giving its traders a commanding presence...
ICE Data Services publishes key fixed income indices in real time
Market operator, infrastructure and benchmark provider Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) has announced that ICE Data Services has launched real-time publication of several of its most...
Viewpoint : Gareth Coltman : MarketAxess
Smarter trading – Data and auto execution
An interview with Gareth Coltman, Head of European Product Management, MarketAxess.
How is automation manifesting on the buy-side desk...
Bigger / smaller: What sizes are optimal for electronic trading?
Credit trading has been transformed by evolving electronic execution, which has allowed buy-side desks to express investment ideas in to the market using more...
Acuiti and Eventus report: Complexity of trade surveillance shows ‘significant’ increase
Analyst firm Acuiti’s latest report, ‘Getting to the risk quicker: How trade surveillance leaders are dealing with an increasingly complex environment’ has found that...
Bank of England warns of risks in fast fixed income markets
By TheDESK
Chris Salmon, executive director for markets at the Bank of England has warned that risk management techniques need to develop to handle the...
















