Market Analysis: Pressure on US dealing desks is changing priorities in 2020
New analysis of market activity this year has observed that while issuance is “racing toward historic annual highs” there is no corresponding increase in...
Traders call time on outsized European market open hours
Buy- and sell-side traders have called for Europe to review its equity market open periods, which at eight and half hours is over 30%...
SEC forms Fixed Income Market Structure Advisory Committee
By Flora McFarlane.
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced the formation and first members of its Fixed Income Market Structure Advisory Committee.
The committee,...
PGIM: Research indicates liquidity event is tail risk with greatest impact
In a survey of 400 senior investment decision-makers at institutional investors in Australia, China, Germany, Japan, the UK and the US with a combined...
Restricting access to derivatives
In 2022 regulation and market activity may see greater adoption of derivatives, but traders need to be cognisant of their limitations. Dan Barnes reports.
Derivatives,...
S&P to end TCA offering
S&P Global is shuttering its transaction cost analysis (TCA) operations, according to sources familiar with the matter.
Michael Richter, EMEA executive director of TCA at...
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...
Charles River and LedgerEdge collaborate on DLT-enabled credit liquidity and trading services
Charles River Development, a State Street Company, is collaborating with distributed ledger bond market specialist LedgerEdge, to provide investment firms with access to corporate...
The Book: Alphabet tops issuer league table in May
Alphabet Inc., the parent company of Google, was the largest corporate issuer in May 2025. It issued a combined US$5 billion and a combined...
JP Morgan: Treating the buy side as clients, not counterparties
The ability to aggregate external and internal liquidity can deliver streamed pricing in all markets.
JP Morgan is on the path to providing a combined...
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....
Europe’s incongruous drop in IG bid-ask spreads
European investment grade (IG) credit traders will have seen average bid-ask spreads declining since April, with the median average (typically about €0.03 cents lower...
