House of Representatives hearing: Volcker link to bond illiquidity tenuous
Testimony given to the US House of Representatives on 29 March 2017 suggests the Volcker Rule cannot be directly blamed for poor liquidity in...
SEC approves primary market database for US credit
Last week US market regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) signed off the development of a single central source of new issue reference...
November’s bumper month for fixed income e-trading
Electronic trading platforms have reported a bumper November for fixed income trading, with CME reporting interest rate average daily volume (ADV) up by 42%;...
KNG Securities appoints Edward Williams to emerging markets sales team
Fixed-income investment bank KNG Securities has appointed Edward Williams to its sales team as an emerging markets (EM) specialist.
Williams brings 30 years of experience...
What FILS delegates want
With the Fixed Income Leaders Summit (FILS) Europe upon us, The DESK has been speaking to attendees to discern what topics are most eagerly...
Ipreo growth ahead of rival banks Q1 platform launch
By Flora McFarlane and Dan Barnes.
A primary market offering is expected to be launched by a consortium of Citi, Goldman Sachs, and Wells Fargo...
Coalition Greenwich: Opportunity to electronify block bond trades is huge
Analyst firm, Coalition Greenwich, has found that block trades in the US bond market, defined as trades in investment grade (IG) with a notional...
Charlie Collins named head of European credit at Trumid
Fixed income market veteran, Charlie Collins, has been named head of European credit at Trumid. Collins was most recently a managing director at Tradeweb,...
CME Group SOFR futures hit new volume and open interest records
CME Group’s SOFR futures reached a record average daily volume (ADV) of 5.4 million contracts in September and an open interest record of 13,159,646...
MarketAxess claims X-Pro boosts trader efficiency by 20%
MarketAxess has presented its new X-Pro trading interface as delivering a significant efficiency boost to bond traders.
Speaking with analysts on the firm’s Q4 2023...
Charles Taylor Investment Management selects Bloomberg OMS
Charles Taylor Investment Management (CTIM), the fund management business of Charles Taylor, has adopted Bloomberg’s Asset & Investment Manager (AIM) and PORT Enterprise systems....
Bloomberg research: Automated trading boosts both productivity and performance
Automated trading solutions have gone from being a tough sell to a requisite as firms seek to improve productivity.
However, the impact on performance...
