Research: TCA use in bond markets
New research of 36 buy-side firms has found that 81% of respondents find fixed income TCA effective for assessing broker performance, 77% for regulatory...
French treasuries saw widest YtD median bid/ask spread following election
Following French president Emmanuel Macron’s unexpected snap parliamentary election on 9 June, the median bid/ask spread in French treasury bonds was at its widest...
Repo market stress prompts calls for central bank support
Could central bank intervention bypass sell-side intermediaries, if they only act as agents not risk takers? David Wigan reports.
The stresses in the US repo...
ESMA lacks data to test bond market concerns
By Pia Hecher.
Regulators have acknowledged that bond market data is so sparse, even post-MiFID II, that they are unable to test execution quality concerns....
Citigroup Global Markets hit with $2.9m SEC underwriting expenses recordkeeping penalty
Citigroup Global Markets (CGMI) has settled a US$2.9 million penalty with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for underwriting expenses recordkeeping violations.
The SEC...
Glimpse Markets adds Exoé, announces payment-for-data model
Buy-side led data sharing utility, Glimpse Markets, has announced that outsourced trading provider, Exoé has joined its network for data sharing across corporate bonds...
FILS 2024: Multifaceted monster or tamed by technology? Views on liquidity
According to the buy-side, liquidity no longer meets the old textbook definition – the ability to buy or sell, at a given price, size...
7 Chord’s EM sovereign and corporate bond feed prices on Nasdaq’s Quandl
Predictive bond prices and analytics provider, 7 Chord, has expanded its data offering on Nasdaq's Quandl. Bond investors and dealers can now leverage Python,...
FILS USA 2022: Behind the scenes
The buzz at FILS this year reflects the three-year hiatus from in-person events – and the amount of change that has occurred since then....
Ron Catena joins Marex
Marex has appointed Ron Catena as director of fixed income outsourced trading. Based in the US, he reports to Mike Rosen, global co-head of...
Tradeweb offers corporate treasurers US T-bill trading
Corporate treasurers can now directly trade US Treasury bills (T-bills) through Tradeweb’s electronic trading platform.
The announcement follows Tradeweb’s 2024 acquisition of Institutional Cash Distributors...
ECB warns ‘dark trading’ may cement bond market fragmentation
A paper by the European Central Bank (ECB), entitled ‘Dark pools in European equity markets: emergence, competition and implications’ has advised firms to be...
