Government & municipal bonds | Investor paradox | Dan Barnes
SWIMMING WITH GOVERNMENTS.
Government agencies are issuers, rival investors, market regulators and controllers of interest rates; how do asset managers handle them? Dan Barnes writes.
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Mutually assured success: How interpersonal relationships create trust in electronic markets
Bond trading is a relationship business, with pricing and liquidity influenced by the strength of relationships between buy-side and sell-side. As the market moves...
FICC bolsters services for mandatory clearing
DTCC’s FICC has expanded its agency clearing services as volumes skyrocket ahead of the mandatory clearing deadline for US Treasuries.
The company is also providing...
Bloomberg rolls events data into single pipe
Bloomberg has launched a new version of its Real-Time Events Data solution,
integrating event data into its B-PIPE market data feed, using identifiers like Financial...
Investment in derivatives post-trade set to soar
A new study by analyst firm, Acuiti, released in a whitepaper entitled The Growing Need to Invest in Derivatives Post-Trade, sponsored by Broadridge Financial...
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MarketAxess to buy MuniBrokers
Bond market operator MarketAxess has agreed to buy MuniBrokers, a central electronic venue serving municipal bond inter-dealer brokers and dealers.
MuniBrokers connects 14 municipal securities...
Investor Demand: How Trump tariffs could affect investor appetite for dollar, risk outcomes
UBS House View, published by Mark Haefele, Global Wealth Management chief investment officer; Brian Rose, senior US economist, CIO America; Jon Gordon, strategist, UBS...
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ION integrates fixed income solutions into XTP Execution
ION has integrated its fixed income solutions with its XTP Execution service, expanding client access to futures markets for trading and market data.
ION’s XTP...
What does flat e-trading growth mean for credit traders?
The proportion of electronic trading in 2023 within US credit markets is proving stubbornly resistant to growth. Research by market structure analysts, Coalition Greenwich,...
Viewpoint: Ruben Costa-Santos & Milan Borkovec
Fixed income analytics comes of age.
By Ruben Costa-Santos, Head of Multi-Asset Analytics, and Milan Borkovec, Head of Analytics Quantitative Research at Virtu Financial.
Under MiFID...
UBS quantifies MiFID II ripples that will be felt across the pond
The DESK.
Banks will see trading revenue growth fall by roughly 1.5% in 2018 due to MiFID II, and that pressure will sustain for at...
Exclusive: What do buy-side traders think about Citadel’s entry into credit?
We asked senior buy-side trading heads about electronic market maker, Citadel Securities, entry into the corporate bond market as a direct market maker, a...
