Trading: Regulatory overreach onto the trading desk
Complaints about regulators expanding rules for equity markets into fixed income are rising on both sides of the Atlantic.
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)...
The credit futures market
By Andreas McGrath, Fixed Income ETF Trader, Susquehanna International Group
How did Susquehanna become involved in this market?
When Eurex first approached Susquehanna in 2021...
Refinitiv report on fixed income trading finds strong appetite for automation
Refinitiv, part of the London Stock Exchange Group, and analyst firm Coalition Greenwich, have released a report on the evolution of trading in fixed...
The DESK’s Trading Intentions Survey 2021 : Profiles
Bloomberg
Bloomberg has the highest penetration of any provider into the buy-side fixed income trading desk. This year has seen it significantly revise charges to...
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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...
RPMI Railpen confirms trading to be insourced
RPMI Railpen, which represents the UK’s railway workers pension fund, has confirmed plans to internalise its trading desk, which is expected to be operational...
SIX tokenises corporate bonds to expand investor base
SIX Digital Exchange (SDX) has completed its pilot project tokenising corporate debt instruments in collaboration with Banque Pictet.
Fractional quantities of the tokenised assets were...
GAM in talks with Newgame after unsuccessful Liontrust bid
Global Asset Management (GAM) has entered into talks with investor group Newgame after the mooted Liontrust bid is now expected not to materialise.
The “constructive...
OpenDoor reveals greatest challenge and a turbo-charged match rate
OpenDoor has revealed a significantly high match rate for asset managers on the all-to-all continuous order book it launched in January 2020, to replace...
E-trading stumbles in US credit
E-trading in high yield (HY) US credit reduced year-on-year (YoY) in February, despite rising average daily trade sizes.
After taking almost a third of traded...
Lead : Crossing trades & best execution : Dan Barnes
The best ways to cross‑trade
Crossing trades between funds is operationally complex but rewarding for investors and asset managers; using platforms to standardise the process...
FILS 2024: Differing views of the macro picture
Do the central banks have our backs? This question was debated by buyside strategists at the Fixed Income Leaders Summit on Friday.
“We believe in...
