TradeTech 2023: The digitalisation of fixed income
Delegates at TradeTech in Paris heard how the evolution of digital assets is allowing investors to access traditional exposures via new mechanisms.
“At Union Investment,...
Proprietary trading firms seek fixed income investment expansion in year ahead
Proprietary trading firms, buoyed by an optimistic outlook for the year ahead, are investing in trading new asset classes, particularly fixed income, with government...
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Asia’s Electronic Trading Wave Reaches Swaps
By Andrea Sbalchiero, IRS Product Manager, Asia at Tradeweb.
Electronic trading is on the march in Asia. One example is Japanese Government Bonds, where automation...
EM traders ride out the chaos
It would be understandable if trading in emerging markets (EM) debt were becoming more expensive as risk increased in many markets it makes up,...
Cboe Australia, XTB expand access to corporate bond products
Cboe Australia has added XTB’s exchange-traded corporate bond products (XTBs) to the Cboe Funds platform.
In partnership with XTB, Cboe Australia has launched a series...
Barclays Bank adopts CLS’s CCS service
Barclays Bank has gone live on CLS’s cross currency swaps (CCS) service.
The CCS service, an extension of the CLSSettlement payment-versus-payment settlement solution, mitigates settlement...
FILS 2024: Building the right data environment
Traders have highlighted the importance of high-quality data for automating trades, noting that real-time liquidity scores and predictive prices are crucial to supporting this...
What is driving down EM trading costs?
Analysis of trade size and bid-ask spread data from MarketAxess’s CP+ pricing feed and Trax market data, which tracks activity across markets, indicates that...
Primary markets start 2023 with top ten hit
Bond issuance for US investment grade on 3 January 2023 was the tenth largest day on record, according to data from Dealogic.
While January is...
Investor demand: SSGA prepares for private credit retail interest with ETF
Expecting private credit demand to swell among retail investors, State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) has launched an ETF for investment grade private credit markets.
The...
Exclusive: Katana’s intellectual property up for sale
The intellectual property of Katana, which provides trade ideas to bond investors, has been put up for sale by Hilco Streambank. Developed in-house at...
MetLife Investment Management acquires Mesirow teams
MetLife Investment Management (MIM) has agreed to acquire the high yield, bank loan and strategic fixed income teams.
The transaction also includes Mesirow’s small-cap equity...
