Barclays survey finds half of clients trade 90% of rates tickets electronically
Barclays’ Market Structure team has released its third annual survey of bond market electronic trading for buy-side clients.
In rates markets, when asked what...
Tradeweb sees volume drop in June
Bond market operator, Tradeweb, has reported its average daily volume (ADV) in June was US$780.9 billion (bn), a decrease of 8.9% year-on-year (YoY), largely...
OpenYield Trading prints first trade
Broker-dealer and alternative trading system OpenYield Trading has launched, printing its first trade.
OpenYield is designed to make access to the bond market easier and...
Industry viewpoint: Optimising the data pipeline for buy-side trading desks
Buy-side bond traders can enhance execution through a flexible data offering.
The DESK spoke with Mark Heckert, ICE’s Chief Operating Officer of Fixed Income and...
Atte Lahtiranta to join Citadel in early 2025
Citadel has appointed Atte Lahtiranta as head of core engineering. He will join the firm in early 2025.
Atte has close to 30 years of...
Investor Demand: Ermotti says tariff uncertainty took Spring out of investors’ step
Sergio Ermotti, group CEO at UBS, has said the usually positive investor sentiment in the Spring season was severely watered down by tariff uncertainty.
“The...
Oppenheimer veteran joins Dinosaur Financial
Dinosaur Financial Group has appointed Robert Rahman as global head of credit within its newly-launched global corporate credit securities (GCCS) division.
GCCS aims to be...
Former TD Securities head of US Treasury trading indicted for alleged spoofing
A federal grand jury in the US has returned an indictment charging Jeyakumar ‘Jack’ Nadarajah, formerly TD Securities’ head of US Treasury trading, with...
Pragma launches new algorithmic management system
Pragma, the multi-asset execution technology provider, has released a new generation of Panorama, the firm’s algorithmic management system (AMS).
Panorama 2.0 is designed to provide...
Is electronic trading levelling out the year-end liquidity shortfall?
Concern about liquidity shortfalls at year end could be alleviated by electronic market makers say traders, and the data seems to back them up.
A...
CME Group set to clear US cash Treasuries
A CME Group representative has confirmed to The DESK that the company is set to enter US Treasury clearing.
The news was first reported...
Repurchase disagreements
A calamitous year-end in 2016 has put the broken repo market firmly in the spotlight. Lynn Strongin Dodds reports.
December 2016 saw Europe’s repurchase agreement...
