Bond CTP race heats up
Etrading Software launches a free-to-use in 2025 Consolidated Tape prototype, intensifying competition among prospective providers.
Etrading Software (ETS), a provider of technology-led trading software solutions...
BIS targets liquidity cliff in repo
Banks have reacted to end-of-quarter capital reporting by reducing activity, leading to sudden declines in liquidity; now authorities are reacting.
Banks have been ‘window dressing’...
FILS 2022: Big themes this year
The innovation day at the Fixed Income Leaders Summits (FILS) on Tuesday is held under the Chatham House rule preventing direct reporting of what...
Citi embraces updated offshore RMB repo scheme
Citi is now a primary liquidity provider for the enhanced offshore RMB bond repurchase (repo) scheme run by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA)...
SOFR is off to the races
By Colm Murtagh, Head of U.S. Institutional Rates, Tradeweb.
There are (surely) more obviously thrilling ways to celebrate a new year, but in many ways, the market...
ICMA: Buy side struggled to make margin calls as repo dried up
A new report, ‘European repo market and the COVID-19 crisis’ published by the International Capital Markets Association, has found that some buy-side firms had...
New York Fed economists see US Treasury liquidity at crisis levels
Current US Treasury market liquidity is comparable with the 2007-09 global financial crisis and the March 2020 crisis, particularly for the two-year note, according...
MarketAxess adds directional and currency functionality to portfolio trading
Bond market operator MarketAxess has added new portfolio trading functionality to its platform, to better integrate with a full suite of trading solutions.
The MarketAxess...
Bloomberg finds global bond deals down in Q3
By Shobha Prabhu-Naik.
Bloomberg, the global financial data provider, has published its League Table reports for the third quarter of 2018 showing that the global...
Hunstad and Roth take investment reins at NTAM
Northern Trust Asset Management (NTAM) has named Michael Hunstad and Christian Roth global co-chief investment officers, effective 1 June.
They replace Angelo Manioudakis, who has...
Same trading costs, different year
The new year has seen trading volumes drop back to a similar level as seen in early January 2022, but in European credit, bid-ask...
FILS USA 2022: Exciting evolutions for trading protocols
Reaching out into the market to find the other side of a trade is contingent upon the right approach, be that a particular trading...
