Portfolio trading challenged on best execution
For decades, tourists have flocked to Spain’s Costa Brava in anticipation of the three Ss, broadly understood to refer to sun, sea and sangria....
Tradeweb, Trumid close in on MarketAxess’ lunch
Electronic credit closed 2024 on a strong showing with December monthly volume growing 14.7% to US$18.3 billion year–on–year (YoY) while full-year trading volume totalled...
Eurex: EMIR 3.0, are you ready?
EMIR 3.0 active accounts are set to change the European clearing landscape: are you ready?
Matthias Graulich, chief strategy officer and Executive Board Member,...
Hiring spree sees banks bolster fixed-income desks
By Flora McFarlane.
A Greenwich Associates report indicates banks are rebuilding their sales and trading desks in response to several quarters of growth in fixed...
Intercontinental Exchange makes strategic investment in BondLink
Market operator and data provider InterContinental Exchange (ICE) has made a strategic investment in BondLink, a financial technology company that provides cloud-based debt management...
Barclays: Portfolio trading 8% of US credit market volume
Barclays has conducted new analysis into portfolio trading of corporate bonds, estimating the trading protocol now makes up 8% of US credit trading.
The firm...
BlackRock launches first BuyWrite fixed income ETFs
BlackRock launched a first-of-its-kind suite of fixed income ETFs that provide access to buy-write investment strategies on baskets of fixed income securities: the iShares...
LatAm sees e-trading momentum with support for all-to-all
In Latin America, 46% of trading in corporate hard currency bonds is conducted electronically, according to research by analyst firm Coalition Greenwich, compared to...
High Yield did not get the ‘trade size’ memo
High yield trade sizes are continuing to rise in 2024, and its bonds continue to show signs of increasingly manual trading. As bond markets...
FILS USA: Has US Treasury clearing mandate killed all-to-all trading for the buy side?
While there are still questions around the effect of US Treasury reforms on market structure, many buy-side traders will be focused on the impact...
LedgerEdge goes live with eagerly anticipated bond trading platform
LedgerEdge, the distributed ledger ecosystem for trading bonds has gone live with a regulated corporate bond trading platform built using distributed ledger technology (DLT),...
New Aité report provides detailed analysis of fixed income EMS capabilities
A new report from the Aité Group, penned by Audrey Blater and Matt Simon, has provided an in-depth look at the execution management system...
