Cboe Credit Index Futures: The expanding liquidity picture
As buy-side firms look to increase their exposure to credit futures, market operators find ways to support access.
The DESK spoke with David Litchfield, director...
Hamza Hoummady made head of European rates trading at Barclays
Barclays Investment Bank has named Hamza Hoummady as head of European rates trading, promoting him from head of EMEA non-linear rates trading, rates structuring...
Research: ETFs worsen fixed income liquidity in a crisis
An academic paper has argued that fixed income exchange traded funds (ETFs) “improve bond liquidity in general, but worsen it in periods of large...
OMS market: Vendors focusing on strategic sales pitch
Research suggests that an apparently limited interest in changing order management systems (OMS) on buy-side trading desks has been overcome by OMS vendors at...
SEC fines Bloomberg US$5 million for failure to disclose single quotes as BVAL source
Market operator and data provider, Bloomberg, has been fined US$5 million by US market regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for failing to...
The UK’s inflation-linked notes getting snapped up
Data from Parameta, the TP ICAP company data and analytics provider, shows the five-year breakeven inflation rate for the UK, which represents a measure...
Barclays now streaming prices into MarketAxess Live Markets
Barclays has committed to become a dedicated market maker and is actively contributing streaming prices for US investment grade corporate bonds to the MarketAxess...
FINBOURNE Technology named tech provider for Bloomberg, MarketAxess and Tradeweb consolidated tape
FINBOURNE Technology recently participated in a tender process, against a number of industry peers, including Ediphy - however not Propellant.digital as previously identified -...
Moody’s strips US of its final triple-A
Moody’s Investors Service has cut the long-term sovereign rating of the United States by one notch to Aa1, citing the inexorable rise in federal...
Bond traders report screen prices are off by 10%
Several buy-side fixed income traders have confirmed that electronic prices are currently around 10% off the price that bonds are actually trading at, creating...
Amit Raja takes new role at Citi
Citigroup has confirmed that Amit Raja has been appointed regional head of markets for EMEA at the investment bank.
The announcement follows Leo Arduini’s appointment...
SEC enacts security-based swap execution facilities registration rule
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has created a regime for the registration and regulation of security-based swap execution facilities (SBSEFs).
The new regulatory...
