Beyond Liquidity: Investors Turn to Fixed Income Dark Trading During Market Stress
Dark pool trading in credit markets offers numerous benefits on a day-to-day basis, and can increase during periods of market stress. A recent example...
FILS 2022: Big themes this year
The innovation day at the Fixed Income Leaders Summits (FILS) on Tuesday is held under the Chatham House rule preventing direct reporting of what...
Electronification nudging firms to single trading platforms FlexTrade says as Amundi opts for FlexTRADER...
Speaking to The DESK, FlexTrade EMEA managing director Andy Mahoney said the trend towards the electronification of fixed income has prompted firms to create...
MarketAxess reports record August volumes
Bond-market operator MarketAxess has reported having its strongest ever August monthly trading volumes, with US$30.6 billion in total trading average daily volume (ADV), up 44%, driven by...
FILS 2022: Repo market not broken but can do better
Liquidity problems shone a light on the effectiveness of the repo market in recent months, speakers acknowledged at this year’s Fixed Income Leaders' Summit...
ESMA consults on MiFIR trading obligation for derivatives
By Sobia Hamid.
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published today a consultation paper regarding its draft technical standards specifying the trading obligation for derivatives under...
Tim Hill joins MUFG Securities Americas
MUFG Securities Americas has appointed Tim Hill as a director, focused on investment grade credit trading.
Hill joins from Goldman Sachs, where he began his...
Exclusive: How Bloomberg bagged Broadway when ION could not
Bloomberg’s recent agreement to acquire execution management system (EMS) provider Broadway Technology, raised some eyebrows within the front office universe.
Broadway had previously been the...
The effect of trade sizes on high yield liquidity costs
Trading in high yield markets across the Atlantic is diverging considerably, with average trade sizes and bid-ask spreads tracking quite different patterns, according to...
CME’s credit futures volumes quadruple YoY
Q3 2025 average daily volume (ADV) on CME’s dollar denominated credit futures reached US$292.3m, up 390% from Q3 2024, with average open interest (OI)...
CanDeal, TMX Datalinx develop new Canadian loan benchmark
CanDeal Benchmark Solutions has collaborated with TMX Datalinx on a new “robust benchmark” – Term CORRA (Canadian Overnight Repo Rate Average) 1- and 3-month...
Mizuho senior departs for Deutsche Bank
Amedeo Scippacercola has joined Deutsche Bank as a European government bond trader. He is based in London.
Within Deutsche Bank’s investment bank division, fixed income...
