HY holding back US credit e-trading evolution
Electronic trading in investment grade (IG) US credit was up both year-on-year (YoY) and month-on-month (MoM) in June, according to research from Coalition Greenwich,...
Jan-Hendrik Röske joins Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan
Jan-Hendrik Röske has joined the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (OTPP) as principal for developed markets rates and FX.
The pension plan holds CA$255.8 billion in...
The Loan Lowdown: Volatility’s impact on Leveraged Loans
Howard Cohen, Head of Leveraged Loans at MarketAxess.
Since early April, the leveraged loan market has trended in one direction. Risk assets have continued to...
Hold me now!
“Hold me now,
Whoa, warm my heart,
Stay with me!”
This Thompson Twins’ classic could be sung by corporate bonds to the sell-side community, who saw their...
Rob McGrath & Gregg Moore of Schroders: On united trading
Having created a global trading team over much of 2014, Rob McGrath (right), global head of trading and Gregg Moore (left), head of trading...
A surfeit of bonds?
Henry I of England famously died from eating a surfeit of lampreys – a delicacy until consumed to excess. Central banks might want to...
What’s the fuss about… New capital rules?
What’s all this fuss about new capital rules? The US Federal Reserve has decided that some banks, with over US$100 billion in assets, need...
LTX and TransFICC partner for enhanced onboarding
Broadridge’s fixed income trading platform LTX has partnered with e-trading technology provider TransFICC to improve the venue onboarding process.
Through the partnership, corporate bond dealers...
MiFID II/MiFIR text approval likely to take “several weeks”
A source close to the trilogue discussions around the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive and Regulation (MiFID II / MiFIR) has said that talks...
Adaptive taps Rapid Addition for FIX solutions
Trading technology provider Adaptive has partnered with financial messaging protocols firm Rapid Addition to enhance its FIX solutions.
The firms say they are addressing increasing...
EU-UK financial services regulatory framework to be agreed by March 2021
The draft Trade and Cooperation Agreement between the United Kingdom (UK) and European Union (EU), which has been supported by the Europe Union and...
Ediphy slams FCA for CTP auction chaos
Ediphy Analytics alleges that the Financial Conduct Authority has breached its own rules in selecting Etrading Software as the UK bond consolidated tape provider.
"The...
















