Traders welcome India’s bond e-trading evolution as regulator shows teeth
The Indian bond market provides a conundrum for investment traders, who fight to gain access to liquidity and pricing information on behalf of their...
US Treasuries lost its ‘sell-side’; can clearing and capital rules revive it?
Market participants report the current proposals by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to centrally clear trades in the US Treasuries market are...
Investor Demand: BofA finds investors still upbeat despite AI bubble risks
The latest Bank of America ‘European Fund Manager Survey’ has found that investor confidence has returned as stronger growth and sticky inflation creates a...
Investor Demand: Retail to rule private markets, institutional investors say
Institutional investors expect their retail counterparts to dominate private markets over the next two years, according to a recent State Street survey.
Retail-style vehicles will...
FILS 2024: “Cause for optimism” in primary markets
While the majority of trading in secondary markets happens electronically, primary markets are falling behind and continue to favour manual workflows. However, there’s cause...
Mutually assured success: How interpersonal relationships create trust in electronic markets
Bond trading is a relationship business, with pricing and liquidity influenced by the strength of relationships between buy-side and sell-side. As the market moves...
FILS 2022: Dealers address Project Amber, streaming prices and increasing competitiveness
Market making has not fully matched buy-side demand in 2022, with trading desks voicing ongoing concern about bidless markets in some areas of fixed...
ESMA consults on MiFIR trading obligation for derivatives
By Sobia Hamid.
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published today a consultation paper regarding its draft technical standards specifying the trading obligation for derivatives under...
Research: ETFs worsen fixed income liquidity in a crisis
An academic paper has argued that fixed income exchange traded funds (ETFs) “improve bond liquidity in general, but worsen it in periods of large...
FCA and IOSCO publish LIBOR cessation reminders
Both the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the International Organisation of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) have published reminders of the LIBOR cessation date, 30 September...
MeTheMoneyShow : Cryptic problems for US regulators
In this podcast Dan Barnes speaks with Terry Flanagan and asks whether Europe is leading the race for exchange traded products? They discuss the...
MarketAxess to buy algo provider Pragma
Bond market operator, MarketAxess, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Pragma, a quantitative trading technology provider specialising in algorithmic and analytical services...
