Investor demand: ECB has market pricing govies as if investors favour US over EU...
Market pricing since 21 May reads as if investors prefer US duration over euro-area duration: 10-year US Treasuries (UST) have rallied by 42 basis...
Best practice in credit TCA measures
The need to optimise execution quality is increased as buy-side firms seek to optimise all-to-all trading, and therefore price making, in credit. Transaction cost...
Market disruption spreads beyond Ukraine and Russia
Traders are reported that liquidity across developed and emerging markets is being hit, with trades taking far longer to complete and price formation suffering...
KNG Securities appoints Edward Williams to emerging markets sales team
Fixed-income investment bank KNG Securities has appointed Edward Williams to its sales team as an emerging markets (EM) specialist.
Williams brings 30 years of experience...
Enhancing trading through better surveillance
Trade surveillance, like best execution, can be harder to analyse in fixed income markets due to the complexity of instruments, access to data and...
valantic FSA invests in low-code technology provider Velox
valantic Financial Services Automation (FSA), a provider of cross-asset electronic trading and automation solutions, has completed an investment in Velox Financial Technology, to support...
MarketAxess Q2 update: Claims 20% share global credit trading; portfolio trading ‘flattened out’
MarketAxess has reported its Q2 results for 2022, including a record composite corporate bond market share, estimated at estimated 20.2%, up from 17.8% in Q1 2021...
Primary markets start 2023 with top ten hit
Bond issuance for US investment grade on 3 January 2023 was the tenth largest day on record, according to data from Dealogic.
While January is...
Marc Govoni named CEO of TP ICAP’s agency execution division
TP ICAP, the electronic market infrastructure, interdealer broker and information provider, has appointed of Mark Govoni as chief executive officer of its agency execution...
ISDA expands transparency exercise to European CDS
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) has expanded its SwapsInfo derivatives database to include European credit default swaps (CDS) trading activity, enhancing transparency...
Manual trading remains popular in US rates market
Record issuance and higher holdings prompted significant US rates volume growth in January. While electronic trading maintained its market share, manual processes remain popular...
Euronext’s European govie mini-futures go live
Euronext has launched its mini-futures for European government bonds.
The products focus on the 10-year OAT, Bund, Bono and BTP. They also cover the first...
