Tradition takes over BondsPro as MTS leaves US market
MTS, the European bond trading platform majority-owned by Euronext, has completed the sale of its US subsidiary MTS Markets International to Tradition America Holdings,...
PIMCO to use Algomi ALFA for liquidity sourcing
PIMCO, one of the world’s largest fixed income investment managers by assets under management will begin using Algomi ALFA, the pre-trade data aggregator for...
SSGA launches new bond ETF on Barclays Global Aggregate index
State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) has launched the SPDR Barclays Global Aggregate UCITS exchange traded fund (ETF). The fund is available unhedged on the...
Viewpoint: MarketAxess to increase automation with Adaptive Auto-X
MarketAxess is aiming to initially launch Adaptive Auto-X in the first half of this year to provide clients with algorithmic workflows and allow them...
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...
ASX loses AUS$250 million on failed blockchain settlement project
The Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) has pulled its project to replace its existing settlement system, CHESS, with a blockchain-based settlement system.
The project, which has...
IHS Markit partners with Adroit to deliver multi-asset execution via thinkFolio
Investment services, risk and data management giant, IHS Markit, has partnered with Adroit Trading Technologies to give access to its multi-asset execution management capabilities...
Bank of England maintains stock levels of government and corporate bonds
By Flora McFarlane.
The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has voted to maintain the stock of government bond purchases at £435 billion and...
Swaps market implies no rate change from FOMC
Data from the swaps market implies participants expect to see policy rates unchanged after the Federal Open Markets Committee (FOMC) meeting this week.
Looking further...
thinkFolio integrates Investor Access to support primary market workflow
IHS Markit's thinkFolio investment management platform has integrated with the firm's Investor Access primary market workflow tool, to provide fixed income issuance support within...
The DESK’s Trading Intentions Survey 2020 : Unpicking the buy-side workflow
We reveal the buy side’s use of platforms for pre-trade data, executing orders in the market and trading venues.
Trading Intentions Survey highlights
Bloomberg has...
DataBP expands data services business with MarketAxess
Bond market operator and data provider, MarketAxess, is using the services of DataBP, a data licensing and commercial management platform, to support and automate...