Finbourne, Propellant partner to pursue UK, Europe bond tape provider projects
Finbourne Technology and Propellant Digital have forged a strategic partnership to bid for the bond Consolidated Tape Provider (CTP) projects in the UK and...
S&P Global veteran moves to Virtu
Michael Richter has joined Virtu Financial as an analyst on the business development team.
Trading solutions provider Virtu reported US$1.1 billion in total revenues over...
Broadridge DLR activity tapers
Average daily volumes (ADV) on Broadridge’s distributed ledger repo platform (DLR) have begun to fall after seven months of continual growth.
ADV was US$362 billion...
Flow Traders joins MarketAxess as named CP across US HY and Euro IG and...
Flow Traders has committed to become a name-disclosed liquidity provider in US high yield corporate bonds, Euro-denominated investment grade and high yield bonds and...
Video: Trends in Fixed Income Trading: Metamodern Meditations on the Future Market Structure
Russell Dinnage, managing consultant at GreySpark Partners, talks about how the structure of trading in the fixed income market could change over the next...
EIB’s Project Venus issues second digital bond on blockchain
The European Investment Bank (EIB) — in collaboration with Goldman Sachs Bank Europe, Santander and Société Générale — launched Project Venus, their second euro-denominated...
Less distressed debt
The risks of default in high yield credit are one reason cited for reduced sell-side trading activity in the asset class. However, while the...
Lead: Bloomberg throws down the gauntlet
Bloomberg’s new pricing model for bond trading – if accepted as delivering value – will pay for development of new functionality.
Competition between the big...
SIFMA finds support for shift in benchmarking of 20-year US corporate bonds
The spread for many legacy 20-year US corporate bonds is benchmarked against the 30-year Treasury, but trade body SIFMA has found support for moving...
KNG Securities appoints Cristian Fera as LatAm corporate analyst
Fixed income investment bank KNG Securities has appointed Cristian Fera as LatAm corporate analyst.
At KNG, Fera will focus on international debt issued by Latin...
ESMA confirms data headaches for non-equity instruments
Trading venues and approved publication arrangements (APAs) – or post-trade data aggregators – are not always complying with the requirement to make available data...
Hult: The dealer business is changing
Who are the big beasts of the bond markets today? The red ink on banks’ recent quarterly earnings reports writes the latest chapter in...
