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MarketAxess has appointed Roberto Hoornweg to its board of directors, effective 1 March. On his election, Hoornweg said: “I look forward to helping the firm...

JPMorgan had the largest fixed income, currencies and commodities (FICC) revenues amongst US banks at US$5.4 billion for the last quarter of 2025 with Goldman showing the strongest year on year growth on rates and FX trading. Citi and BofA FICC results were...

Looking at Dealogic data for debt issuance over the past four year tenures of US presidents, it is notable how much the macro picture,...

The move towards the consolidated tape is not a silver bullet By Vidal Mehra, Chief Product Officer, Propellant Digital. When the FCA and ESMA transparency regimes...

Market operator Tradeweb reports it has completed the first fully electronic institutional Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR) swap spread trade. BlackRock and JP Morgan...

George Kierton has joined BlackRock as a vice president and emerging markets trader. BlackRock holds a reported US$14 trillion in assets under management. Earlier this week,...

Natixis IM: Growing concerns over stubborn inflation, Fed leadership, and the threat of currency wars While US and European markets have largely recovered from the...

The New York Federal Reserve’s Treasury Market Practices Group (TMPG) has published a white paper on ‘Data Availability and Transparency in the US Treasury...

Broadridge Financial Solutions has selected 7 Chord, an independent predictive pricing and analytics provider, as the source for intraday corporate bond prices on its...

Trad-X, the trading platform for interest rate derivatives, has added UniСredit as a dealer and ACTIAM as a non-dealer to its dealer-to-client (D2C) electronic...

By Evan Brown and Meena Bassily of UBS Asset Management Consensus growth forecasts for the US and other advanced economies have been repeatedly revised higher since...

The overall pace of bond market electronification is slowing, but trading evolution is not linear. Electronic trading has grown as a proportion of total trading,...