Simpler bond liquidity assessments diverge on either side of the Channel
British and European authorities are actively aiming to simplify bond liquidity and transparency regimes, but divergent reporting deferral rules for rates and credit, as...
The Fed’s TMPG begins consultation on clearing and settlement in US Treasury repo
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Treasury Market Practices Group (TMPG) has released a consultative white paper on clearing and settlement in the...
European rules misleading investors on trading costs for derivatives
By Pia Hecher.
Derivatives analytics firm OpenGamma found that transaction costs for derivatives may be misrepresented by up to 900% to investors, as a result...
Beyond Liquidity: Regulators warn on alternative Libor rates
Libor, the benchmark interest rate that was embedded in hundreds of trillions of dollars of financial contracts around the world, ceased publication at the...
Bloomberg drops RUNZ forwarding over information leakage fears
On 10 September 2024 Bloomberg started automatically blocking the forwarding of RUNZ-formatted messages.
A RUNZ formatted message is an email message composed on the Bloomberg...
Fischette swaps SGCIB for HRT
Jason Fischette has joined Hudson River Trading as a fixed income specialist. He is based in New York.
Revenues of the market makers are not...
Peter Metcalfe and David Matheson named co-CIOs at RPIA
RPIA, a Toronto-based fixed income specialist asset management firm has appointed Peter Metcalfe and David Matheson as co-chief investment officers (CIOs), effective 1 June,...
NowCM and Liquidnet look to accelerate new issue workflow
The NowCM Group, a system and infrastructure provider for the primary debt markets, has worked with Liquidnet, the investment and block trading specialist, to...
Overbond to integrate Euroclear LiquidityDrive into real-time bond trading automation
Overbond, the provider of AI quantitative analytics for institutional fixed income capital markets is to integrate Euroclear LiquidityDrive settlement-layer data for fixed income trade...
European Commission pushes consolidated tape for primary and secondary bond market
The European Commission (EC) has set out a wide ranging process to “stimulate the openness, strength and resilience of the EU's economic and financial...
This Week from Trader TV: Luke Hickmore, Aberdeen Investments
Inflation fears and geopolitical risks dominate markets.
Luke Hickmore, investment director at Aberdeen Investments, says inflation remains one of the market’s top concerns, warning that...
Viewpoint: Nichola Hunter – The next big evolution in rates trading
Q&A with Nichola Hunter at MarketAxess.
What were the drivers behind the MarketAxess expansion into rates?
There were two main drivers. One was to provide, primarily...
