Raj Paranandi resigns from MarketAxess
European and APAC chief operating officer Raj Paranandi is leaving MarketAxess for an external role, the company has confirmed.
Paranandi has been in the role...
Bloomberg launches US Treasury dealer algos to expand buy-side access to liquidity
Bloomberg announces the completion of the first trade using its newly launched US Treasury (UST) Dealer Algos.
This first-to-market solution provides buy-side clients with broader...
Bloomberg introduces new fixed income pre-trade TCA model
Bloomberg has launched a new pre-trade transaction cost analysis (TCA) model that helps market participants to assess trade cost, daily executable volume, and probability...
Changing the liquidity dynamic
US treasury traders are seeing enormous shifts in historical volume and trading patterns. Nichola Hunter, CEO of trading venue LiquidityEdge believes that asset managers...
Treasury futures open interest shows record uncertainty; surpasses 17 million contracts
Derivatives market operator, CME Group, reports that open interest (OI) in its US Treasury futures reached a record 17,222,551 contracts on 12 May, the...
Shape the way you access The DESK in 2025
In 2025 we will be introducing proprietary data tools to allow our readers to research bond issuers and issuance activity.
To support our independent sourcing...
Bloomberg launches ultrashort TIPS index to quell inflation fears
Bloomberg has launched an ultrashort index for the Treasury inflation-protected securities (TIPS) market as investors’ inflation concerns grow.
The Bloomberg US Ultrashort TIPS 1-13 Months...
ESMA lacks data to test bond market concerns
By Pia Hecher.
Regulators have acknowledged that bond market data is so sparse, even post-MiFID II, that they are unable to test execution quality concerns....
Smaller proportion of US Treasuries e-traded than previously estimated
Levels of e-trading in US treasuries in dealer-to-dealer (D2D) and dealer-to-client (D2C) markets have come into sharper focus thanks to data collected by FINRA...
Europe’s incongruous drop in IG bid-ask spreads
European investment grade (IG) credit traders will have seen average bid-ask spreads declining since April, with the median average (typically about €0.03 cents lower...
BondDroid AI now available within TS Imagine’s TradeSmart fixed income EMS
TS Imagine has made 7 Chord’s BondDroid AI available within the TradeSmart fixed income EMS.
BondDroid AI applies real-time continuous learning technology to generate accurate...
JP Morgan leads Q1 trading results, Dimon calls for deregulation
JP Morgan raced ahead of competitors in fixed income trading revenues over the first three months of 2025, reporting over US$1 billion more than...
