Exante targets SMAs with portfolio management infrastructure
Prime broker Exante has launched a portfolio management system designed to help firms scale and meet demand for separately managed accounts.
Allocator has been developed...
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...
ICMA proposes post-trade deferral regime for sovereign bonds
The international Capital Markets Association (ICMA) has proposed a deferral regime for post-trade sovereign bond data, to counter the ‘complicated’ approach currently allowed.
In...
Bloomberg beefs up communications with cross-firm chatbots
Bloomberg has launched cross-firm chatbots on its Instant Bloomberg (IB) platform, aiming to ease workflow disruptions and prioritise value-add communications.
The new product brings Bloomberg...
Symphony acquires natural language processing platform Amenity Analytics
Symphony, the market infrastructure and communications platform, has acquired Amenity Analytics, a natural language processing (NLP) data analytics solution. Amenity Analytics is designed to...
The cost of transparency and the value of information
Transparency can smell like information leakage by any other name, to butcher a Shakespeare quotation. Giving up information needs to happen at the latest...
IMTC partners with ICE Bonds
Fixed income liquidity from ICE Bonds is now available on the IMTC platform.
Mutual clients will be able to access BondPoint and TMC, ICE Bond’s...
LedgerEdge goes live with eagerly anticipated bond trading platform
LedgerEdge, the distributed ledger ecosystem for trading bonds has gone live with a regulated corporate bond trading platform built using distributed ledger technology (DLT),...
Buy-side fights back against primary market pressure
As new platforms promise to increase efficiency in bond issuance, buy-side firms are looking for leverage to drive change, and not only through technology.
The...
Peoples joins Jefferies in outsourced trading push
Brandon Peoples has been named global head of outsourced trading at Jefferies. He is based in New York.
Dean Gray, head of international outsourced trading...
How much credit should dealers get – and for how much risk?
There is a tension between best execution obligations and the longer-term value of a dealer supporting liquidity provision. Buy-side traders are aware that their...
The Vol Show: With Etienne Mercuriali
Perps, DTE Options, the 10/10 Meltdown, and the crypto’s shift toward TradFi.
On The Vol Show, Peter Chen, founder and CIO of Riverside Blockchain, comes...
