FCA fines three broker firms £4.7 million market abuse failures
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined interdealer brokers BGC Brokers, GFI Brokers and GFI Securities £4,775,200 for failing to ensure they had appropriate...
Europe’s record IG credit issuance could boost electronic trading
January was a record month for investment grade bond issuance in Europe, with shorter-dated driving this activity. According to analyst firm CreditSights, shorter maturity...
CFTC Chair Behnam to Step Down Amid Regulatory Transition
Rostin Behnam, chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, has announced his departure after steering the agency through a transformative period in digital and...
BondVision prepares for T+1 shift
MTS’s BondVision (part of the Euronext group) has updated its default settlement offset to T+1.
In anticipation of the North American transition to a shortened...
SIX releases “flexible” fixed income data offering
SIX has launched a fixed income data offering in response to growing data requirements in the market.
The SIX Fixed Income Data service gathers data...
Technology : Trader engagement : Dan Barnes
Helping traders to think like engineers
The gap between the technology a trading team wants and the technology it gets is often wide; helping them...
Samy Ben Aoun to run continental-Europe rates at Barclays
Barclays investment bank has hired Samy Ben Aoun as head of rates trading for continental Europe, returning him to the firm’s trading floors nearly...
Tradeweb sees volume drop in June
Bond market operator, Tradeweb, has reported its average daily volume (ADV) in June was US$780.9 billion (bn), a decrease of 8.9% year-on-year (YoY), largely...
Trading Intentions 2023 Profile: Neptune
Neptune proves the standalone choice
Neptune is the most used standalone pre-trade data source in credit markets, with half of desks employing its streaming axe...
Market news | Treasury liquidity
Fed warns on liquidity mirage for US treasuries.
Making a real-time assessment of market liquidity across multiple venues is more difficult due to high-frequency trading...
EU lawmakers push for more stringent bond rules
The European Union is looking to tighten the region’s planned green bond standards to mitigate greenwashing from issuers of environmentally-friendly debt.
It calls on sellers...
Tigress network “maximises” ESG footprint with ICE bond platform partnership
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), a global provider of technology and data, has partnered with Tigress Financial Partners, a disabled and women-owned financial advisory firm, to...
