Tabb: Derivatives boosting access to liquidity into 2019
By Pia Hecher.
Analyst firm TABB Group reports the number of market participants using corporate bond index futures and bond index total return swaps (TRSs)...
ION Markets delivers trading connectivity for Trumid
ION Markets, a provider of trading solutions for capital markets, has upgraded its connectivity to support market operator Trumid’s Attributed Trading, a disclosed dealer-to-client...
Build your own EMS
Frustration with commercial front office technology is leading major buy-side firms to build execution capabilities.
Buy-side spend on order management and execution management systems (O/EMS)...
7 Chord to integrate Glimpse Markets’ bond transaction data
7 Chord, an independent provider of predictive prices and analytics to fixed income traders, issuers, and investors, has become the first AI pricing vendor...
TRACE recalibration exposes double counting
An adjustment to bond trade reporting to TRACE, the US post-trade reporting tape for fixed income, has cut the volume of trades arranged via...
Bond platforms report record trading volumes for March
The March 2020 numbers are in for bond trading platforms MarketAxess and Tradeweb and both have seen record results, in a period that has...
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...
Cboe’s credit futures activity and OI leapfrogs CME and Eurex in November
In November, Cboe’s US dollar iBoxx iShares credit futures set new records with US$455 million in average daily volume (ADV) and US$1.95 billion in...
AxeTrading links with Börse Stuttgart, Bond Port and adds Overbond pricing tool
Börse Stuttgart is to resume business in €-corporate bonds with its long-standing partner Raiffeisen Bank International AG (RBI), via the AxeTrading platform.
RBI will use...
Are average trade sizes really falling in the US?
Earlier this year we noted that average trade sizes were down considerably on 2022, but being wary of mean reversion, we wanted to revisit...
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...
Coalition Greenwich predicts electronic revolution for the MBS market
A new study by Coalition Greenwich analyst Audrey Costabile posits that Mortgage Backed Securities trading will electronify over the next five years. Along with...
