Rules and Ratings: Moody’s sees improving credit fundamentals driving leveraged finance deals
As interest rates decline, credit fundamentals will improve in 2025 and defaults will ease, according to analysis from credit rating agency Moody’s.
“Investors will hunt...
CanDeal launches live pricing for Canadian corporate bonds
CanDeal has announced the launch of Corporate Matrix Pricing on its Evolution platform, providing intraday pricing for Canadian corporate bonds alongside integrated trading capabilities....
BNP Paribas joins with GTS for US Treasuries trading
By Flora McFarlane.
BNP Paribas has announced today that it has teamed up with quantitative trading firm, GTS, to access US Treasuries trading, signalling the...
Press release: Markets Media and Trader TV announce joint content partnership
Markets Media, the global publishing house for capital markets, and Trader TV, the leading video content producer for institutional traders, have announced an agreement...
LedgerEdge deploys on OpenFin
LedgerEdge, the distributed ledger technology (DLT) bond trading platform, is deploying on OpenFin, the desktop interoperability service. LedgerEdge’s web-based graphic user interface (GUI) will...
SOFR is off to the races
By Colm Murtagh, Head of U.S. Institutional Rates, Tradeweb.
There are (surely) more obviously thrilling ways to celebrate a new year, but in many ways, the market...
UBS integrates Bond Port with iQbonds to increase counterparty diversity
UBS has integrated its Bond Port trading venue with iQbonds, the bond trading platform of software provider valantic.
iQbonds is heavily used in the German...
US agencies report on US Treasury market changes; market making still out of scope
A new report entitled, ‘Enhancing the resilience of the US Treasury Market’, has outlined the steps taken by US authorities to support what it...
BGC buys embonds, lay-offs confirmed
Interdealer broker BGC has confirmed its May 2018 acquisition of emerging markets bond trading platform embonds, while several sources close to the firm have...
Euronext launches government bond index family
Euronext, in partnership with its electronic fixed income trading platform MTS, has launched a European government bond (EGB) index family.
Derived from the “mother index”,...
Barclays bounces with strong Q1 trading revenues
Fixed income trading revenues spiked in the first three months of the year at Barclays, putting the bank significantly ahead of the majority with...
US Treasury market change catalysed by proprietary trading firms
Proprietary trading firms are driving change faster than the interdealer brokers, writes David Wigan.
Direct streaming of pricing data is changing the historical client/dealer relationship...
