Sterling dealers recommend SONIA as alternative to LIBOR
The Bank of England’s Working Group on Sterling Risk-Free Reference Rates – a group of major dealers active in sterling interest rate swap markets – has...
Do banks want credit trading to look like FX?
The end game of market making commoditisation is that a smaller number of players provide a vast volume of liquidity to the majority of...
Bloomberg Indices capitalises on growing leveraged loan market
Bloomberg has expanded its leveraged loan indices to both European and global markets, building on growth in the European market and increased client demand.
Jasvinder...
MarketAxess reports record electronic trading volumes for January
By Flora McFarlane.
MarketAxess, electronic trading platform for fixed income securities, has reported that January was a record month for daily and monthly trading volumes,...
Trading : Intertwining electronic trading of credit and rates
Electronic market operators are bringing together credit and rates trading platforms in an effort to deliver more efficient execution for traders.
The interplay between the...
Lord Abbett picks IMTC for portfolio, order management
Global asset manager Lord Abbett has appointed IMTC as portfolio and order management system provider.
IMTC will provide an end-to-end investment platform for the US$214...
Rise of the EM platform
Trading EM bonds electronically is showing growth, despite the challenges in matching. Chris Hall reports.
Emerging Market (EM) debt trading volumes recorded a 21% year-on-year...
Bloomberg launches emerging market ESG fixed income index family
Bloomberg and MSCI have launched the Bloomberg Barclays MSCI Emerging Markets ESG Index Suite which includes ten Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) indices.
These benchmarks...
ICE: Indexing – the next evolution
ICE offers advancements with customisation, AI and a depth of historical data
The DESK spoke to Varun Pawar, ICE Fixed Income & Data Services’ Chief...
NEX Markets CEO questions Thomson Reuters price claim
By Pia Hecher.
Seth Johnson, chief executive officer of NEX Markets, operator of US Treasury marketplace BrokerTec, talks about the firm’s data distribution strategy, including...
ICE bolsters fixed income offering as Virtu offloads BondPoint
By Flora McFarlane.
BondPoint, the electronic fixed income securities trading platform, has become the latest addition to Intercontinental Exchange’s fixed income offering.
With the US$400 million...
Adroit wins Invesco, connects to LedgerEdge
Adroit Trading Technologies, a trading system provider for institutional buy-side managers, has been mandated as an execution management system (EMS) across over the counter...
