UK to allow shorting of government debt and sovereign CDS
The UK Government has said it will remove requirements currently placed on investors when taking out short positions in sovereign debt or sovereign credit...
Exclusive: Cboe goes live with US Treasury trading
Cboe has gone live with cash Treasury trading, the first trade having been conducted in mid-October. It is operating a ‘Full Amount’ execution protocol...
April showers on e-trading platform growth
Last month saw electronic trading platforms continue to grow, but with activity hit by the concerns around financials, leading multi-asset market operator, Tradeweb, to...
Darren Bustin joins Schroders
Darren Bustin is to join Schroders Solutions on 1 September 2022, in the newly created role as head of Schroders Solutions Capabilities.
Bustin brings over...
What volatility looks like
Understanding how challenging the European markets have been to trade this year is far clearer when looking at the numbers. According to MarketAxess TraX...
TORA’s OEMS integrates with Liquidnet’s IA Trader
Trading systems provider TORA has integrated its order and execution management system (OEMS) with a global institutional investment network, Liquidnet’s IA Trader. The integration...
The Book: Digital Asset and Euroclear tokenise gilts and Eurobonds
Digital Asset, a blockchain system provider, has completed a collaborative initiative to tokenise gilts and Eurobonds.
Euroclear, The World Gold Council, and global law firm...
April Day leads AFME capital markets
AFME has named April Day as head of capital markets.
Based in London, she replaces Rick Watson, who announced his retirement in July 2024.
Day has...
Jim Kwiatkowski named CEO of LTX, Toffey becomes chairman of the board
LTX, Broadridge Financial Solutions' bond, digital trading business, has promoted Jim Kwiatkowski to the role of CEO.
Jim Toffey, co-founder of LTX, will succeed Art...
Roster of finance heavyweights welcomes Claude Finance with acclaim
Anthropic announced Claude Finance on 15 July, describing it as a version of its large‑language‑model platform tailored for finance‑sector research, modeling and compliance work.
Aaron Linsky,...
European Commission fines investment banks €371 million for bond trading cartel
The European Commission has found that Bank of America, Natixis, Nomura, RBS (now NatWest), UBS, UniCredit and WestLB (now Portigon) have breached EU antitrust...
Primary markets: The choices facing buy-side traders
Ted Douglas, Co-Head of Global Fixed Income, Capital Formation at IHS Markit spoke to The DESK about the dynamics of bond issuance for the...
