FILS in Barcelona: The modernisation of the bond market
A massive modernisation of the bond market is being recognised at the Fixed Income Leaders’ Summit in Barcelona.
Although the event was largely held...
DTCC’s FICC sees record clearing figures in government securities
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC)’s Fixed Income Clearing Corporation’s (FICC’s) Government Securities Division (GSD) processed US$8.8 trillion in daily activity on 31st...
Implications of Atlanta Fed negative GDPNow score for US credit
The Atlanta Federal Reserve’s GDPNow estimate for real GDP growth in the US hit 2.4% on 6 March 2025, up from -2.8 percent on 3 March,...
Brookings Institution: Loose ends in the US Treasury market
A paper published by Nellie Liang, the Miriam K. Carliner senior fellow in Economic Studies at the think tank Brookings Institution and Pat Parkinson,...
European bond traders struggle with block trades and counterparties
Analysis of the European and US corporate bond markets by Coalition Greenwich has found that block trades and counterparties are a far greater concern...
LSEG invests in BondCliQ to expand fixed income data
London Stock Exchange Group and buy-side institutions have led fundraising in BondCliQ, which provides a consolidated quote system in the opaque and fragmented market...
Technology: Educating data
Can better pre-trade data really unlock liquidity in frozen fixed income markets?
If buy and sell-side bond traders are to see real benefits from the...
Derivatives: Credit default swaps – The revival
Applying innovation from corporate bond markets to credit derivatives trading could boost liquidity at a point of market stress.
Single-name credit default swaps (CDSs) provide...
TransFICC: The increasing importance of data centres in fixed income
As the fixed income market becomes more electronic, we are seeing an increasing number of firms connecting to data centres around the world. The DESK...
Industry viewpoint : MTS : David Parker
Revolution over evolution: The corporate bonds landscape
David Parker, Head of MTS Markets International
Over the last two years, electronic trading of corporate bonds has rapidly...
Can you guess which market has seen the greatest fall in bid-ask spreads, year-to-date?
Two weeks ago, we asked what was crushing the US investment grade (IG) market’s bid-ask spread. However there has been an even greater reduction...
Volumes drop off as Q1 ends, but liquidity still cheap
A broad decline of trading volumes across European & US corporate bond and emerging market debt trading coincided with end of the first quarter...
