Splinters of a market
While liquidity in US investment grade (IG) markets has been holding up relatively well, MarketAxess data shows us that the past month has seen...
IOSCO sets pre-hedging guard rails, amid calls for ban
The International Organisation of Securities Commissions (IOSCO), has published its final report on pre-hedging, amid call for the practice to be banned, and allegations...
Exclusive: Analysing the battle for US e-Trading in February
The highly competitive corporate bond market saw average daily volumes converge in the US across electronic trading venues in February. The DESK has exclusively...
Liontrust loses McLoughlin
Head of trading Matthew McLoughlin has resigned from Liontrust Asset Management.
McLoughlin has been a partner and head of trading at the active investment management...
EXCLUSIVE: TradingScreen bought by Francisco Partners
Execution management system (EMS) provider TradingScreen has been bought by private equity firm Francisco Partners for an undisclosed sum. The deal brings to a...
Bloomberg Terminal outage: “Fortunately it was a quiet day”
Bloomberg Terminals went dark this morning, with traders reporting outages worldwide.
The terminal costs between US$24k and US$27k per year.
Eric Boess, global head of trading...
Dan Burke joins MarketAxess
MarketAxess Holdings has appointed Dan Burke as global head of emerging markets. He reports to Raj Paranandi, chief operating officer for EMEA and APAC....
Tradeweb succession as Hult becomes CEO and Pluta becomes president
Tradeweb, the market operator for rates, credit, equities and money markets, has implemented leadership changes as part of its previously-announced succession plan.
Effective 1 January,...
Digital bond issuance: From zero to US$1,500,000,000 in 12 months
S&P Global Market Intelligence has assessed that the digital bond market “remains a work in progress” as new bond issuance focuses on testing in...
TransFICC: Establishing a clear path forward for the Consolidated Tape
Tim Whipman from TransFICC provides an update on the consolidated tape for European fixed income, and explains the key requirements, hot topics and technology...
Missing liquidity – Zen and the art of liquidity maintenance
Regulators cannot find the liquidity problem that traders see daily, threatening to set rules for game ‘A’, when game ‘B’ is played out in the markets. Chris...
If you go down to the woods today…
The bond market is bearish at a historical level according to analysis by BofA Securities, with high yield down -16.7%, investment grade down -19.3%,...
