Feeling the credit crunch in high yield trading
Trading costs for high yield bonds have been elevated on both sides of the Atlantic. The US saw a big jump in bid-ask spreads...
Keep an eye on bank issuance
Bank bond issuance is expected to pick up this year according to research by Morgan Stanley analysts. With deposits proving less attractive as a...
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FCA’s new consultation aims to streamline further capital raising and enhance investor access
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) released on 31 January 2025 a new consultation Paper “CP25/2”, proposing further changes to the Public Offers and Admissions...
NatWest, Santander with Fnality, Nivaura and Adhara execute cross-chain Ethereum debt transaction
Three UK financial technology firms, Fnality, Nivaura and Adhara, in collaboration with European banks Santander and NatWest have completed a pilot, proof of concept...
Ancoa goes into adminstration
Cinnober Financial Technology has acquired the assets of Ancoa Software, the UK-based market surveillance specialist company, as a going concern. Terms of the deal have...
Treasury bill supply and ON RRP investment
By Gara Afonso, Marco Cipriani, Catherine Huang, Gabriele La Spada, and Sergio Olivas.
Take-up at the Federal Reserve’s Overnight Reverse Repo Facility (ON RRP) increased...
Keeping the doors open
Erika Bianco, Senior Marketing & Communications Manager, EMEA & APAC at MarketAxess and Camille McKelvey, Head of Post Trade STP Business Development at MarketAxess talk...
MarketAxess executes first portfolio trade for tax-exempt munis
MarketAxess has executed the platform’s first ever portfolio trade for tax-exempt municipal bonds.
The portfolio trade was executed earlier this month between a large bank...
Roster of finance heavyweights welcomes Claude Finance with acclaim
Anthropic announced Claude Finance on 15 July, describing it as a version of its large‑language‑model platform tailored for finance‑sector research, modeling and compliance work.
Aaron Linsky,...
Worsening credit conditions battle improving trading capabilities
Both defaults and rerating of bonds are more likely in a high rate environment, and for trading desks this means finding efficient ways to...
JP MORGAN: The parametric approach to credit trading
Broadening the range and number of instruments traded in a single order is opening up liquidity.
The DESK spoke with Andreas Koukorinis, global head of...
CUSIP requests indicate municipal borrowing to rise, corporate to fall
CUSIP Global Services (CGS) has found a significant surge in request volume for new municipal bond identifiers, and a significant decline in request for...
