US shutdown hitting bond market traders
By Pia Hecher.
The ongoing United States federal government shutdown is directly impacting US bond market regulation and evolution, leading to the Fixed Income Market...
GreySpark: FI markets will continue to see fragmentation based on all-to-all trading
A report by consultancy GreySpark has found that in 2020, global fixed income e-trading landscape has been defined by fragmentation in line with historical...
MTS and Wematch.live launch risk netting service for interest rate swaps on Euronext
European electronic fixed income platform MTS and fintech Wematch.live have successfully trialled the first session of the risk netting Service for interest rate swaps...
MeTheMoneyShow – Episode Six
Dan Barnes, editorial director of Markets Media Europe and editor of The DESK, speaks to Lynn Strongin Dodds, editor of Best Execution about three...
Liquidnet reports ‘record’ $3.5bn volumes in Q1 2024
Liquidnet saw “record” trading volumes through its New Issue Trading (NIT) protocol, reaching US$3.5 billion, more than double the previous quarter.
The firm also saw...
Overbond to integrate Euroclear LiquidityDrive into real-time bond trading automation
Overbond, the provider of AI quantitative analytics for institutional fixed income capital markets is to integrate Euroclear LiquidityDrive settlement-layer data for fixed income trade...
MiFIR: Controversy around consolidated tape proposal for revenue sharing with venues
The Czechia presidency of the Council of the European Union proposed amending the Markets in Financial Instrument Regulation (MiFIR) on 16 December 2022, with...
Bloomberg rival Money.Net partners OpenFin to scale up
By Shobha Prabhu-Naik.
Money.Net, a provider of live streaming financial market data, has selected desktop operating system OpenFin to deploy and deliver its software at...
Technology: Desktop interoperability providers: What’s the difference?
Capital markets firms are improving trading efficiency via desktop interoperability technology, so we look at the different providers.
Desktop interoperability is not a new issue...
ESMA: APA problem is not a risk to investment firms
The European Securities and Markets Authority has said that a recent problem in reporting bond market data via an approved publication arrangement (APA) does...
Squeezing the bid-ask spread
Bid-ask spreads in the corporate bond space have continued to collapse in 2025, suggesting that liquidity costs are dramatically improving for buy-side traders.
Looking at...
Electronic credit platforms report fresh rises in trading volumes for March and Q1
Electronic bond market operators saw a new boost to volumes in March, and in the first quarter more broadly, as volatility in capital markets...