Fixed income trading : Refinitiv
A look at current market challenges and the leading-edge tools that can mean the difference between success and failure. By Alexandre Hardouin, Refinitiv
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Trading: Regulatory overreach onto the trading desk
Complaints about regulators expanding rules for equity markets into fixed income are rising on both sides of the Atlantic.
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)...
ESMA confirms data headaches for non-equity instruments
Trading venues and approved publication arrangements (APAs) – or post-trade data aggregators – are not always complying with the requirement to make available data...
Flow Traders loses Ramon Baljé
Ramon Baljé, the head of fixed income at Flow Traders, the prominent Dutch market maker, is leaving the firm after six years.
During his tenure,...
ADDX launches blockchain-based debt issuance marketplace
Private market exchange ADDX has launched a blockchain-based multi-issuer debt issuance solution for firms to issue digitised commercial paper and bonds.
The digitised bonds from...
ESMA: Hundreds of bond funds suspended redemptions in record-breaking March sell-off
A new report by the European Securities and Markets Authority has laid out how systemic risk might be created through funds’ inability to process...
Automating the fixed income workflow: data is king
Automated trading is fast becoming the new normal in the global fixed income markets. Once considered too complex and nuanced for automation compared with...
Low volatility hits Q2 MarketAxess earnings
Bond market operator, MarketAxess, reported revenues of US$176.3 million in the second quarter of 2021, down 4.6% against Q2 2020.
“Second quarter results were heavily...
Parameta Solutions becomes an authorised benchmark administrator
Parameta Solutions, the Data & Analytics division of TP ICAP, has become a Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) authorised benchmark administrator, which it claims makes...
Treasury market volatility drives spike in curve spread strategies
Volatility in the US Treasury market has prompted heightened trading on CME Group’s BrokerTecRV Curve, the firm has reported.
BrokerTecRV Curve, which facilitates the trading...
Barclays Bank adopts CLS’s CCS service
Barclays Bank has gone live on CLS’s cross currency swaps (CCS) service.
The CCS service, an extension of the CLSSettlement payment-versus-payment settlement solution, mitigates settlement...
Credit Suisse and Crédit Agricole lose EC fine appeals
Credit Suisse and Crédit Agricole have lost their appeals to avoid €28.4 in fines for competition rule infringement, initially imposed by the European Commission...
