European Markets Choice Award Winner: Best in AI – LTX
First mover advantage in a wave of change can be enormous, as LTX has demonstrated with BondGPT
Bond trading platform LTX has launched into an...
CME Europe and CME Clearing Europe to close by year end
CME Group is to close its London-based derivatives exchange and clearing house, CME Europe and CME Clearing Europe, by year-end 2017. The announcement follows Nasdaq...
TradingScreen and Imagine Software to merge; Flatley named CEO of new entity
Private equity firm Francisco Partners, which The DESK revealed has acquired TradingScreen, a provider of trading execution and order management software, is to merge...
THETA hires Flanagan amid whirlwind of connectivity ahead of launch
THETA, the specialist provider of buy-side trading technology as a service, has appointed Paul Flanagan as strategic sales advisor, managing relationships with buy-side firms.
Flanagan...
ICMA fills in the blanks on MiFID II agreement
A new article written by the regulatory team at the International Capital Markets Association (ICMA), has shed light on details in the agreed text...
Symphony keeps arms open for the right partners
Symphony, the capital markets communications platform, and Genesis the low-code application platform (LCAP) have partnered to support the development of interoperable technology and applications,...
Origination: Lockheed Martin issues US$2bn after major Q2 earnings hit
Lockheed Martin Corporation (LMT) has issued US$2 billion in senior unsecured notes.
The issuance follows a 79% year-on-year loss for the second quarter of 2025,...
Mark Tinworth joins RBC Capital Markets
RBC Capital Markets has appointed Mark Tinworth as EMEA head of sales for global markets.
Based in London, he reports to Sian Hurrell, head of...
Scotiabank, Rabo Securities and Huntington Capital Markets join DirectBooks
DirectBooks, the capital markets consortium founded to optimise the bond issuance process has signed up Scotiabank, Rabo Securities and Huntington Capital Markets to join...
MTS BondsPro pushes into Mexican bond markets
Fixed income market operator MTS Markets, part of London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), has expanded its reach into Mexico via a marketing agreement with...
Securities Financing : US repo : Lynn Strongin Dodds
T-Bills swamp the market but repo stays afloat
Lynn Strongin Dodds looks at the US repo market and how it is staying liquid.
Views are divided...
“Complete misunderstanding … or try[ing] to baffle people”; Lutnick counters Duffy
BGC Group’s Q2 earnings call this week wasted no time at all before addressing the ongoing spat between CEO Howard Lutnick and CME CEO...