Port in a storm: Asian international bond markets resilient amid volatility
Volatile interest rates, a fractious geopolitical landscape, and rumbles in the Chinese property sector. Despite these headwinds, the international bond markets in Asia were...
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Barclays Bank adopts CLS’s CCS service
Barclays Bank has gone live on CLS’s cross currency swaps (CCS) service.
The CCS service, an extension of the CLSSettlement payment-versus-payment settlement solution, mitigates settlement...
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...
Get it together: Traders seek primary market harmony
With issuance expected to stay high in 2022, traders appeal for a streamlined approach to primary market interfaces.
The level of global bond issuance in...
April showers on e-trading platform growth
Last month saw electronic trading platforms continue to grow, but with activity hit by the concerns around financials, leading multi-asset market operator, Tradeweb, to...
FILS USA: The significance of portfolio trading breaking 10% volume
Record sized portfolio trades (PT) were reportedly responsible for pushing PT volumes up to around 10% of US credit market average daily volume in...
Bloomberg launches market-driven daily credit risk indicator
Bloomberg is offering its Market-Implied Probability of Default (MIPD) product, a market-driven creditworthiness indicator, to both Enterprise Data and Bloomberg Terminal clients globally. MIPD...
Euro credit primary market “extremely dynamic” in August: AXA IM
The Euro IG corporate index spread finished August 84bps over asw – higher than levels seen at the end of July. Euro credit is...
TransFICC: Technology in the spotlight
RFQ growth and DORA compel firms to focus on system capacity, high performance, complex workflow automation, and disaster recovery (DR).
The fixed income market structure...
MarketAxess hires Steve Tait to lead US dealer execution business
MarketAxess has appointed Steve Tait as head of US dealer execution business - credit.
Tait joins after more than 26 years at JPMorgan, where he...
Government & municipal bonds : Electro muni : Chris Hall
GLOBAL WINDS OF CHANGE FUEL MUNICIPAL BOND AUTOMATION.
International interest is pushing the municipal bond market towards greater electronification and transparency. Chris Hall reports.
A new...
Origination: Estithmar Holding issues QAR 500 million Sukuk
Estithmar Holding has issued a QAR 500 million Sukuk, the first corporate Sukuk denominated in Qatari Riyal. This issuance is the inaugural tranche of...
