Bank of England to embrace repo for liquidity management
Moving away from crisis-driven monetary actions, the Bank of England plans to manage liquidity through repurchase agreement (repo) practices rather than by purchasing large...
Buy-side desks find favour in credit futures
The expansion of Eurex’s credit futures offering into dollar and multicurrency products promises broader and deeper opportunities for investors.
A keen buy-side appetite for credit...
A flying start to 2024 in European bonds may punish traders
The new year has seen a flying start in bond issuance in Europe, with a strong start relative to recent years driving €8.6 billion...
This Week from Trader TV: Markus Ebner, Quoniam Asset Management
Quoniam bets on AI to decode market sentiment and automate strategy.
Systematic asset manager Quoniam Asset Management is expanding its use of AI to extract...
Tabb Group event: Concern regarding Reg ATS expansion
On 9 March the Tabb Group’s ‘Fixed Income Trading and Best Execution Summit’ heard that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) concept release around...
Eurex consolidates asset classes trading and clearing
Eurex has consolidated its equity/index, fixed income, currency and repo operations into two business lines, and named Robbert Booij head of financial derivatives.
The firm...
Liontrust to acquire GAM
Liontrust, the specialist fund management group, has conditionally agreed to acquire GAM, the troubled investment management group, in an all share approach, with ordinary...
Bid-ask spreads see double-digit tightening in early 2025
Analysis of MarketAxess’s CP+ data, which analyses composite trading costs based on traded bonds, has found that bid-ask-spreads have tightened by double digit percentages...
Delivering a liquid market for NGEU bonds, Angelo Proni, MTS
Q&A with Angelo Proni, Head of New and Domestic Markets, MTS
Why is the NGEU initiative important for Europe?
On 21 July 2020, EU leaders agreed to...
MarketAxess reports record August volumes
Bond-market operator MarketAxess has reported having its strongest ever August monthly trading volumes, with US$30.6 billion in total trading average daily volume (ADV), up 44%, driven by...
In pictures: Government bond market liquidity costs spike
Both volume and bid-ask spreads have blown out in the UK government bond (Gilt) market, as seen in the latest TraX data from MarketAxess, which...
Credit trading desks seeing job cuts & hiring freezes, adding to operational pressure
Reports of reduction in headcount on buy-side trading desks at BlackRock, Nuveen and Wellington with cuts also reported at investment banks, are demonstrating the...
