FILS USA 2022: How material will desktop Interoperability be for traders?
The rollout of FDC3 as a standard to support desktop interoperability between different applications has generated considerable interest in the trading community.
Dwayne Middleton, global...
No respite for Italian volatility
By Chris Hall.
Political uncertainties will continue to guarantee challenging conditions for investors in Italian government bonds well into 2019, according to speakers on Thursday’s...
LedgerEdge goes live with eagerly anticipated bond trading platform
LedgerEdge, the distributed ledger ecosystem for trading bonds has gone live with a regulated corporate bond trading platform built using distributed ledger technology (DLT),...
Is the price right?
Transparent assessment of bond prices is a cornerstone of trust between investment managers and end investors. Chris Hall investigates.
Pricing in fixed income markets is...
AFME: EU retail investor proposals may negatively impact wholesale markets
The Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) has outlined its concerns with the European Commission’s Retail Investment Strategy (RIS), with some of the...
FILS USA 2023: Market volatility has tested e-trading and instrument selection
Having had a challenging and volatile first half of the year from a liquidity perspective, not least because of a crisis in US and...
Paolo Buscaglia swaps UniCredit for Santander
Santander Corporate & Investment Banking has appointed Paolo Buscaglia as co-head of European government bond (EGB) and sovereign, supranational and agency debt (SSA) trading....
Can TCA work for voice/chat credit trades?
Transaction cost analysis (TCA) – or execution quality analytics (EQA) – is a much sought after, but often objectively challenged, service in corporate bond...
Kapoor swaps BBVA for HSBC
Sonu Kapoor has joined HSBC as an emerging markets trader, based in New York.
HSBC’s corporate and institutional banking arm reported US$7.1 billion in revenues...
When volatility improves credit liquidity
Credit market liquidity has been positive in the first half of 2025, despite the high levels of volatility.
There are several dynamics which might be...
ICE Bonds expands fixed income liquidity network with TS Imagine connection
TS Imagine has connected to ICE Bonds to offer clients access to its fixed income execution protocols and liquidity.
TS Imagine customers using the TS...
CME: Rising open interest in credit futures signals confidence in corporates
CME Group has seen a rapid rise in Open Interest (OI) for Bloomberg Credit Futures.
In the past two months, the number of these futures...
