Platforms: What the winners are doing right
A few platforms have consistently gained buy-side confidence over the last five years, through smart assistance and simplification of trading workflow.
The three ‘O’s of...
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...
How big can systematic trading get in credit?
Investors can achieve significant advantages though systematic trading, such as reduction of trader/investor bias, and responsiveness to signals. However, there are limits to the...
MarketAxess: Portfolio Trading for Tax-Exempt Munis is now live
Portfolio Trading for Tax-Exempt Munis is here!
Optimize your list trading for large or customized portfolios. With the ability to negotiate on individual line...
Swedish broker shut for pushing risky bonds and illicit issuer payments
Swedish market regulator, Finansinspektionen (FI), has revoked all permits for Nord Fondkommission AB (Nord FK) to continue trading.
Nord FK is a securities firm whose...
Industry viewpoint : smartTrade : Benjamin Becar
Finding solutions
Benjamin Becar, Fixed Income Product Manager at smartTrade Technologies, speaks to The DESK about how technology is key to overcoming buy-side fixed income...
Parameta and ICAP launch interest rate swap volatility indices
Parameta Solutions, in partnership with ICAP G10 Rates, has launched a family of interest rate swap volatility indices designed to enhance the investment decision...
FILS USA: The most valuable fixed income asset is ‘People’
Much of the talk at last week's Fixed Income Leaders Summit in Boston centred around the mechanics of buying and selling bonds: data and...
The Book: Expectations for common European debt issuance
A report by Mario Draghi, former European Central Bank president, looking at paths forward to improve the European Union’s competitiveness, has found a solid...
Bond market operators see high yield down in Q3 2023 YoY with emerging markets...
MarketAxess saw its US high-yield average daily volumes (ADV) for Q3 2023 drop 20.4% against Q3 2022, standing at US$1.3 billion, while high-grade ADV...
High Yield did not get the ‘trade size’ memo
High yield trade sizes are continuing to rise in 2024, and its bonds continue to show signs of increasingly manual trading. As bond markets...
Tradeweb connects repo and IRS markets in electronic workflow
Multi-asset market operator, Tradeweb has launched features that bridge the firm’s repurchase agreements (repo) and interest rate swap (IRS) product offerings to support clients’...
