Trading protocol gains bolster liquidity sourcing
Perspectives vary as to which newer methods of buying and selling bonds will most help institutional traders in the next year, but there is...
Trading Intentions Survey 2025
The battle for pre-trade analytics
The 2025 Trading Intentions Survey canvassed 40 buy-side trading desks across asset managers headquartered in Europe (52%) and the US...
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Trumid growing HY market share
By Flora McFarlane.
Trumid has announced trading volumes of US$2 billion in January 2018, more than doubling 2017 figures, with daily averages of over US$100mm...
Fear that ‘diversity washing’ could limit progress
Mark Wade, head of credit research at Allianz Global Investors, has accused the financial services industry of ‘diversity washing’, during a debate about inclusivity...
Scott Kirkby joins Houlihan Lokey
Global investment bank Houlihan Lokey has appointed Scott Kirkby as a managing director of the European financial services and technology team, part of its...
Fitch Group to acquire CreditSights
Rating and data provider Fitch Group is acquiring CreditSights, the provider of credit research to the global financial community.
The company is being acquired from...
APEX:E3 new AI service ALICE codes equations found in reports, TCA and research papers
Technology and analytics provider, APEX:E3, has launched a new integrated AI service, ALICE, to allow buy-and sell-side firms to rapidly analyse large documents and...
Corporate bond trade sizes climb in Europe
Total notional traded in European corporate bonds reached €5,397 billion in 2024, according to ICMA’s latest Secondary Market Data Report, an 11.8% increase on...
Bloomberg launches US Treasury dealer algos to expand buy-side access to liquidity
Bloomberg announces the completion of the first trade using its newly launched US Treasury (UST) Dealer Algos.
This first-to-market solution provides buy-side clients with broader...
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...
CME, DTCC boost cross-margining services
DTCC and CME Group have expanded their cross-margining initiative for clients of CME and the Government Securities Division (GSD) of DTCC's Fixed Income Clearing...
Traders adopt automated workflows as eTrading expands from swaps into credit
In March TransFICC launched its eTrading service for interest rate swap (IRS) trading. We speak with Steve Toland, co-founder of TransFICC, about client adoption,...
