Colm Murtagh: The Long Goodbye
Dollar Swaps Markets Bid Farewell to LIBOR.
In July, it was linear swaps. In November, non-linear. And next week, on December 13, the further expansion...
Emerging Markets Focus Part 1: What the flows mean for traders
Fixed income sector investments have proven worst for emerging markets funds year to date, according to data from JP Morgan and Bloomberg indices, driving...
The DESK BENCHmark 2017: Mid-sized buy-side have diverse trading
Mid-sized asset managers champion electronic trading - The DESK’s BENCHmark research has found mid-sized firms use electronic trading and a wider range of brokers than...
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Update: How big is portfolio trading?
In November 2020, we assessed the prevailing research on the size of portfolio trading in the corporate bond market. A new report from Coalition...
On The Desk: Christoph Hock: On building efficiency
Union Investment’s development of a multi-asset trading team and segregation of high and low touch business is allowing it to focus trading resource where...
Global investor confidence rises, European confidence falls
State Street Global Markets has found that, despite recent market fluctuations, the State Street Investor Confidence Index (ICI) for May 2022 increased to 97.1,...
“A vital first step”; FCA transparency regime sees industry approval
The International Capital Markets Association (ICMA) and Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) have issued their full support for the FCA’s new transparency...
Trading Technologies acquires AxeTrading
Trading Technologies, the capital markets technology platform provider, has acquired London-based AxeTrading, provider of fixed income trading solutions.
The acquisition marks a broadening of TT’s...
Industry viewpoint : Trading U.S. Treasuries : Josh Holden
Beige:
US Treasuries path forward likely to be moulded by lessons of other markets
By Josh Holden,
Chief Information Officer, OpenDoor Trading
At OpenDoor we recently celebrated the...
Bondtape provides CT taxonomy to clarify definitions
Draft tender documents for the bond consolidated tape (CT) are expected by the end of the month, but there are still inconsistencies around market...
What volatility looks like
Understanding how challenging the European markets have been to trade this year is far clearer when looking at the numbers. According to MarketAxess TraX...
Coding error triggers US$7 million fine for Citadel
The Securities and Exchange Commission has settled charges against broker-dealer Citadel Securities for violating a provision of Regulation SHO, the regulatory framework designed to...
