Industry viewpoint : MTS : David Parker
Revolution over evolution: The corporate bonds landscape
David Parker, Head of MTS Markets International
Over the last two years, electronic trading of corporate bonds has rapidly...
Risk of fiscal crisis in US from growing federal debt
A new report from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has found that if current laws governing taxes and spending generally remained unchanged, the federal...
European Commission fines investment banks €371 million for bond trading cartel
The European Commission has found that Bank of America, Natixis, Nomura, RBS (now NatWest), UBS, UniCredit and WestLB (now Portigon) have breached EU antitrust...
FILS in Barcelona: Breaking up the monoculture
Diversity is not always visible, but its impact is. This was the key takeaway from the panel discussing ‘Launching new Diversity, equity and inclusion...
US and Middle East bond issuance separated by Iran war
The US markets saw a record day of issuance on 10 March, supported by the massive USD37 billion issued by Amazon, alongside a euro-denominated...
CME markets down as data centre overheats
Markets are currently halted at CME Group due to an overheating data centre.
The Globex futures and options market, cash FX EBS market and direct...
Slow-moving regulation hindering EMIR 3 preparation, industry says
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published its regulatory technical standards (RTS) for EMIR 3, after market participants expressed frustration that the...
The DESK’s Trading Intentions Survey 2021 : MarketAxess
Consistently rated as the most effective platform for finding liquidity in the corporate bond market, MarketAxess has frequently been ahead of the market in...
European govies issued at record level in Q1
This year saw the highest first-quarter European government bonds and bills issuance volume since 2006 as €1.2 trillion was issued in Q1 2025, according...
The Book: France issues first digitally native note
Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations (CDC) has issued France’s first digital native note as part of European Central Bank trials to settle wholesale transitions...
MarketAxess: Europe seeing elevated rates trading volume
Following the news that yields for Eurozone government bonds have been rising this week, MarketAxess has shared average daily volume data from the European...
Bitfinex Securities and Mikro Kapital launch ongoing tokenised bond issue
Bitfinex Securities, which offers listing and trading services for security tokens, has launched two new tokenised bond issues under an ongoing tokenised bond issuance...
