BGC claims record Q4 as leadership transition takes effect
BGC Group has posted Q4 revenues of US$572.3 million and full-year figures of US$2.26 billion, and it set to launch FMX Futures to directly...
MSCI and MarketAxess collaborate on liquid fixed income indexes, portfolio construction and ESG
MSCI and MarketAxess are entering into a strategic collaboration to create portfolio analytics solutions and co-branded fixed income indexes incorporating MarketAxess liquidity data.
MSCI plans...
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...
Trading for Trees: Giving back through trading green bonds
Since its inception, the MarketAxess “Trading for Trees” initiative has helped to plant over 385,000 trees across a range of biodiversity, climate stability and...
A very clear contrast in trading volumes as sanctions bite
The second chart this week shows trading in Russian government bonds which fell off a cliff at the start of March, triggered by an...
MarketAxess reports record August volumes
Bond-market operator MarketAxess has reported having its strongest ever August monthly trading volumes, with US$30.6 billion in total trading average daily volume (ADV), up 44%, driven by...
Anoop Datta joins BMO Capital Markets
BMO Capital Markets has appointed Anoop Datta as managing director of algorithmic trading risk.
Datta has close to 20 years of experience and joins the...
People’s Bank of China sets out northbound rules for Swap Connect
The People's Bank of China has issued interim measures to standardise the interest rate swap market between the mainland and Hong Kong, protecting investor...
BondBloxx outsources trading to Northern Trust
Northern Trust providing outsourced trading services to BondBloxx, an issuer of fixed income exchange traded funds (ETFs) which recently surpassed US$1 billion in assets...
TS Imagine expands RiskSmart X margin calculation abilities
TS Imagine has boosted its sell-side financial risk management solution RiskSmart X with the CCP Margin Calculator.
Launched last year, RiskSmart X allows users to...
The Agency Broker Hub: Innovation and preparation
The DESK asked Gherardo Lenti Capoduri, head of Market Hub, the multi-asset agency brokerage execution platform of Intesa Sanpaolo, about the state of the...
FCA consultation lays ground for ending bond SI regime
The FCA’s consultation CP25/20 proposes scrapping the systematic internaliser (SI) regime for bonds, derivatives, structured-finance products and emission allowances to align with the transparency...
