BondWave’s fixed income engine integrates with ICE Bonds
BondWave, the fixed income system provider, has successfully integrated its Effi Markets tool with the ICE Bonds’ trading platforms.
Effi Markets provides access to indicative...
Opinion: Competition, not regulation, will make better bond markets
European credit trading has historically seen levels of electronic trading of around 50% of total corporate credit trading, while the US market has historically...
Liquidnet’s direct link from O/EMS to syndicate banks deployed by Charles River
Block trading specialist and agency broker, Liquidnet, has unveiled a new feature in its new issuance platform for corporate bonds, intended to enable investors...
FILS Day 2: Heat around the consolidated bond tape
One of the more positive messages from the second day of the Fixed Income Leaders’ Summit (FILS) was regarding positive progress on the development...
MiFID II will push traders to renegotiate block approach
By Flora McFarlane.
Block-trading venues will multiply under MiFID II creating new challenges for buy and sell side say market observers. Venues trading in smaller...
Bitcoin, blockchain and the DLT chimera
The uncertain promises of distributed ledger technology for financial markets. By Ferdinando Ametrano, Banca IMI (Intesa Sanpaolo).
Distributed ledger technology (DLT) is at a very...
Market gives cautious response to Sweden’s ‘detail-lite’ MiFID II deal
The Swedish presidency of the Council of the European Union (Council) reached a last-minute agreement with the EU Parliament on proposed changes to the...
BTIG appoints Flavio Paparella to emerging markets fixed income team
Financial services firm BTIG has appointed Flavio Paparella as managing director within its global emerging markets fixed income group.
Paparella, who will focus on Latin...
Symphony acquires StreetLinx
Symphony has acquired the counterparty mapping platform StreetLinx, thereby adding over 200 institutional counterparties to the 1000+ institutions it reports are currently using Symphony....
Derivatives Forum Frankfurt: Efficiency drives towards multi-asset trading
One of the primary reasons for the adoption of multi-asset trading is to improve efficiency, agreed ‘Trends in Multi-asset Trading’ panellists at this year’s...
Industry viewpoint : Accessing China’s bond market with HSBC
Outlining the market impact of the latest changes in the Chinese bond market, Tony Shaw, Head of Institutional Sales APAC at HSBC, discusses the...
The Book: Clearwater Analytics releases commercial paper issuance tool
Clearwater Analytics has released a commercial paper (CP) issuance tool, aiming to improve firms’ efficiency by providing a real-time view of issuances.
With the goal...
