Advances in corporate bond e-trading: Five lessons learned
By Constantinos Antoniades, Global Head of Fixed Income at Liquidnet
Since early 2015 we have seen a steady acceleration in the migration towards electronic trading...
T. Rowe Price deploys Propellant transparency data offering via FlexTrade EMS
T. Rowe Price Associates is live and in production using Propellant's fixed income transparency data offering via FlexTrade's EMS, FlexFI.
T. Rowe Price's fixed-income trading...
EWIFA Winners: Team players
Bloomberg’s Paula Fry, Global Head of Fixed Income and FX Trading Liquidity and winner of Excellence in Leadership, with Katharine Furber, Global Head of...
The cost of liquidity in EM today
A very graphic representation of the cost of liquidity can be seen in the latest data from MarketAxess. It shows that average daily volume...
The Book: BofA DCM team give issuers confidence for financing in 2025
The DESK spoke with Bank of America’s Julien Roman, head of EMEA DCM FIG Origination, Paula Weisshuber, head of EMEA Corporate DCM, and Adrien...
Insights & Analysis: Investors’ Gilt-y pleasure
Markets have turned positive on UK government bonds, which rallied across the curve following the release of unemployment data indicating a higher rate and...
Investor Demand: Investors return to risk in September, State Street finds
Investor risk appetite has risen over September, according to State Street’s Institutional Investors Indicators, reaching 0.27 by the end of the year despite a...
Retreat in credit market primary activity in January 2025, Munis a bright spot
In January 2025, Debt Capital Markets (DCM) for credit issuance retreated in the US and in Europe while primary activity for municipal bonds (Munis)...
Oppenheimer builds out distressed debt team with ten new hires
Oppenheimer, an investment bank and wealth manager, has built out its fixed income division with ten distressed debt team hires, as institutional investors seek...
BondWave partners DbCom to deliver transaction analytics to EQube users
BondWave, a fixed income fintech, has integrated its pre-trade and post-trade transaction analytics with DbCom’s business and compliance platform, EQube.
Delivered through BondWave’s application programming...
The Book: Global DCM deal values drop year-on-year
Global debt capital markets (DCM) deal values have dropped year-on-year over 2025 so far, falling below the five-year average, according to Dealogic data.
The US$3.1...
Electronic liquidity providers push for reform
The buy side relationship with alternative liquidity providers was strained five years ago after the high-frequency traders and their reputations – and business models...
