FCA says HFT firms exacerbate and profit from flash crashes
A paper published by the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority has said that high-frequency trading (HFT) firms and agency traders exacerbate flash crashes in the...
EWIFA: Celebrating the industry’s rising stars
With 2024’s European Women in Finance awards just months away, we at Markets Media are excited to see the nominees for this year's Rising...
ING’s AI is smarter at pricing bonds
By Flora McFarlane.
ING has launched Katana, a new artificially intelligent (AI) bond trading tool which uses predictive analytics to help price trades for clients....
Issuing at the top of the market
The high levels of bond issuance this year, made at what is widely expected to be peak interest rates, are potentially building up high...
Treasuries crunch: Sponging up Treasury liquidity
A considerable increase in trade failures, combined with falling volume and buy-and-hold strategies is creating a shallow market in US treasuries, making the October...
IRS electronification: 20 years in the making
With the 20th anniversary of Tradeweb’s interest rate swaps (IRS) marketplace around the corner, the firm’s head of US institutional Rates, Bhas Nalabothula, looks...
Citi clears CDS index option trades through ICE Clear Credit
Investment bank Citi has traded and cleared the first client-executed credit default swap (CDS) index option trades in the US through ICE Clear Credit,...
Cifu steps back at Virtu
Co-founder Douglas Cifu has retired from Virtu Financial, with chief technology officer Aaron Simons taking on the CEO position.
Cifu will remain an advisor to...
Barclays Japan appoints JP Morgan veteran
Yoichi Takemura has been appointed head of macro trading for Japan at Barclays. He will be based in Tokyo.
Alongside overseeing the macro trading division,...
Yarkova-Valente joins Trading Technologies
Oxana Yarkova-Valente has joined Trading Technologies as a sales executive.
Yarkova-Valente has close to 25 years of industry experience and joins the firm from MTS...
Market Structure: New risk and liquidity in the US Treasury market
Significant changes in counterparties and market structure have transformed US Treasury market activity.
Dealer-to-client trading has overtaken interdealer markets in volume traded according to analyst...
Singhal swaps SMBC for Mizuho
Shrey Singhal has joined Mizuho as director of USD investment grade credit trading.
Based in New York, Singhal specialises in insurance and asset managers and...
