Will the EC ban electronic bilateral bond trading?
The broadening definition of ‘multilateral’ is at risk of capturing all trading if traders do not speak out.
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA)...
Industry viewpoint: New strategies for corporate bond index futures in 2023
David Litchfield, director for derivatives sales at Cboe Global Markets, explains how Cboe corporate bond index futures are supporting traders in a highly changeable environment.
The...
Electronic credit platforms report fresh rises in trading volumes for March and Q1
Electronic bond market operators saw a new boost to volumes in March, and in the first quarter more broadly, as volatility in capital markets...
Sub-2bps bid-ask spreads in US IG are below pre-crisis levels
The US investment grade (IG) credit market is seeing very tight bid-ask spreads in 2021, according to the Composite Plus (CP+) data supplied by...
Lisa Opoku joins Tradeweb board
Tradeweb Markets has appointed Lisa Opoku to its board of directors, effective 7 March 2024. Opoku has more than 30 years of industry experience,...
EU-UK financial services regulatory framework to be agreed by March 2021
The draft Trade and Cooperation Agreement between the United Kingdom (UK) and European Union (EU), which has been supported by the Europe Union and...
Tradeweb: A new era in Gilt pricing
The DESK talks to Chris Collett, Director, European Governments at Tradeweb, about the transformation of Gilt reference pricing in 2017.
The end-of-day Gilt and Treasury...
Regulation Brings TradFi and DeFi Worlds Together
The European Union passed a legal framework for crypto-assets in the region in April this year, covering markets that are not regulated by existing...
Does this year start with the smallest trades ever?
Trading activity in European bond markets at the start of 2024 has had the highest trade count of the past three years by some...
T. Rowe Price opts for ICE’s Best Execution service
By Flora McFarlane.
Asset manager T. Rowe Price has announced that it will use the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) Data Services’ Best Execution service for trade...
TP ICAP focuses on low-touch trading, Liquidnet and buy-side data provision
Interdealer broker and trading services provider TP ICAP outlined its future plans at its Capital Markets Day on Tuesday 1 December, to develop low...
Bloomberg adds Credit Benchmark data to terminal; expands relationship with Lombard Odier
Bloomberg will make Credit Benchmark’s credit risk data – derived from the risk views of global financial institutions – available on the Bloomberg Terminal,...
