Germany issues first tokenised bonds on DLT during ECB trials
Clearstream, DekaBank and DZ Bank have issued two tokenised €5 million bonds using distributed ledger technology (DLT).
The bonds were issued during the ECB’s trials...
ISDA has named Jeroen Krens as board chair
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) has appointed Jeroen Krens as its new board chair, effective 1st of January 2025. He succeeds Eric...
Liane Fahey joins Tradeweb
Former fixed income trader, Liane Fahey, has joined market operator Tradeweb, from Royal London Asset Management.
In her new role as European credit product...
BondbloX to offer US corporate, muni and Treasury bond liquidity
BondbloX Bond Exchange (BBX), the world’s first fractional bond exchange, has integrated with ICE Bonds to offer US corporate, municipal and treasury bond liquidity...
Connectivity platforms report FI deals ahead of MiFID II
By Sobia Hamid.
The growth of electronic trading in fixed income is driving connectivity between trading platforms. In 2016, Greenwich Associates estimated electronic trading of...
Liquidnet’s trading desk reports peaks and troughs of block bond trading
Fraud fears, rumbles in the Chinese property market and oil and elections in Argentina are top of mind for block bond traders, reports market...
Singer Capital Markets appoints Gareth Henderson head of trading
Investment banking firm Singer Capital Markets has appointed Gareth Henderson its new head of trading.
Henderson has been head of market making at Singer Capital...
Citadel poaches Rauseo
Kevin Rauseo has joined Citadel LLC, the alternative investment firm. Rauseo, who was formerly an executive director and head credit trader at rival systematic...
Rates: The risk of weighting sovereign debt
By David Wigan.
Sweden’s sovereign move has fired a risk weight debate. David Wigan reports.
One of the lessons of recent European economic history is that...
Bloomberg Terminal releases document search and analysis feature
Bloomberg is expanding the artificial intelligence capabilities of the Bloomberg Terminal with a document search and analysis solution.
The new service is expected to allow...
TP ICAP connects dealers to Liquidnet’s New Issue Trading protocol
TP ICAP, the interdealer broker, market infrastructure and information provider, is enabling dealers to join the buy-side in placing orders and trade directly on...
Tabb: Derivatives boosting access to liquidity into 2019
By Pia Hecher.
Analyst firm TABB Group reports the number of market participants using corporate bond index futures and bond index total return swaps (TRSs)...
