SGX anticipates Japanese growth with STIR futures
Singapore Exchange (SGX Group) plans to introduce short-term interest rate futures related to the Tokyo Overnight Average Rate (TONA) and the Singapore Overnight Rate...
Opinion: The turning of the (Green) tide?
Market opinion by Jannah Patchay, Markets Evolution.
This year’s City Week event, held on the 21st and 22nd September 2020, was notable for its focus...
BondAuction to introduce auctions for bond issuance by year end
BondAuction, a new platform to support bond issuance, is planning to have its system to support a new auction process operable by mid-2022 with...
Tim Baker joins BMLL to expand firm’s US presence
BMLL, the provider of historical Level 3 data and analytics, has appointed of Tim Baker as senior adviser. Based in New York, Baker will...
The Book: ICMA releases DLT bond guidance
The International Capital Markets Association (ICMA) has released the latest reference guidance on distributed ledger technology (DLT)-based debt securities.
The paper has been developed in...
Tradeweb, Euroclear and Informa Global Markets collaborate on bond issuance
Market operator Tradeweb, international central securities depositary Euroclear and data provider Informa Global Markets (IGM) are collaborating to automate the security identification and setup...
Rules & Ratings: ‘Under review’ list shrinks at AM Best
Germania Farm Mutual Insurance Association is no longer categorised as ‘under review with negative implications’ by AM Best, and has been assigned a financial...
MTS BondsPro integrates with TradingScreen
MTS Markets International, operator of MTS BondsPro, an SEC-registered electronic trading platform and alternative trading system (ATS), has integrated BondsPro with TradingScreen, the execution...
Cboe: What an institutional trader needs to know about FI ETFs and futures
Where instrument selection can be key, understanding cash and derivatives instruments and the interplay between them is invaluable.
The DESK spoke with Joyce Choi, director...
Goldman Sachs adds streaming firm pricing to MarketAxess’ Live Markets order book
Bond market operator MarketAxess has announced that Goldman Sachs has committed to become a dedicated market maker and is actively contributing streaming prices for...
SEC rule defining all market makers as ‘dealers’ thrown out
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has had its rule, that would have defined electronic market makers as ‘dealers’, vacated in case tried...
Central Banks should backstop hedge funds arbitraging the basis trade, new Brookings Paper suggests
A research paper to be presented at the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (BPEA) conference on 28 March, argues that central banks, particularly the...
