Trading outsourcer Tourmaline hires three senior executives
Outsourced trading solutions firm Tourmaline Partners has added Alex Goodman and Matt Sindell as managing directors, and Darren Mazzuca has joined as director of...
Data – Can buy-side firms share bond-trading data?
Asset managers agree they need access to more trading data, but have struggled to share it effectively between themselves.
The paucity of access to bond...
Treasury bill supply and ON RRP investment
By Gara Afonso, Marco Cipriani, Catherine Huang, Gabriele La Spada, and Sergio Olivas.
Take-up at the Federal Reserve’s Overnight Reverse Repo Facility (ON RRP) increased...
Bid-ask spread betting in credit
Betting how bid-ask spreads will move this year has been made more challenging by a dislocation between the mean average and the median bid-ask...
Bloomberg boosts Swap Connect for global investors
Bloomberg has expanded the capabilities of its Swap Connect solution to better facilitate global investment in China’s onshore interbank interest rate swap (IRS) markets.
Using...
“There is no liquidity”: Bond traders report market conditions never seen before
Buy-side bond traders are facing a considerable challenge in matching their investor’s demand for fixed income assets as equity markets plummet. Volumes are up,...
Survey: Are there missed opportunities in fixed income TCA?
Based on their own view of TCA success, buy-side traders could apply analytics to support trading and execution goals.
The DESK has found that fewer...
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Market gives cautious response to Sweden’s ‘detail-lite’ MiFID II deal
The Swedish presidency of the Council of the European Union (Council) reached a last-minute agreement with the EU Parliament on proposed changes to the...
Greenwich Associates: Fixed-income future shaky for dealers
By Flora McFarlane.
Analyst firm Greenwich Associate’s report on investment banks trading European fixed income, has indicated that the first half of 2017’s buoyancy on...
Adaptive: The Modernization Mandate – Who Calls the Shots on Trading Tech?
The Modernization Mandate: Who Calls the Shots on Trading Tech?
Capital markets are at a critical inflection point, with firms navigating a complex transition from...
BlackRock loses senior market structure team as Winnike departs
BlackRock has lost its second senior market structure specialist in a few weeks as Michael Winnike, director, market structure at BlackRock, left the firm...
Quarterly European fixed income market analysis
Leveraging Trax’s vast market data set, the Trax Facts quarterly review provides a detailed analysis of activity across fixed income markets, including: Corporates, Agencies,...
