Press release: Markets Media and Trader TV announce joint content partnership
Markets Media, the global publishing house for capital markets, and Trader TV, the leading video content producer for institutional traders, have announced an agreement...
Making a credit desk simpler
Getting a clear picture of the complex corporate bond market means that at some point, a lot of information has to be brought together...
What is crushing the bid-ask spread in US IG?
The bid-ask spread in US investment grade credit has been falling this year, regardless of the trading volume activity.
Notional traded in the US...
The implication of Europe’s falling volumes
An ominous sign in Europe’s secondary markets for dealers, as volumes remain in the doldrums.
Anecdotally, buy-side firms report volumes are up to 20%...
Bloomberg tops ESMA’s bond venue report for ISIN count in Q4 2023
The European and Securities Markets Authority (ESMA) has published its report on the highest volume traded for individual bonds, tracked by International Securities Identification...
On The DESK : Nick Cox : J.P. Morgan Asset Management
Nick Cox: Engaging a moving target
Nick Cox is the global head of fixed income trading at J.P. Morgan Asset Management, one of the largest...
Citi Markets bets on Asia growth
Citi Markets expects to increase headcounts in its Asia rates and prime businesses over the next year as market activity booms, it says.
The company...
On The Desk: Jim Switzer: On taking control
The AllianceBernstein credit trading desk has been refocused to handle market fragmentation and the withdrawal of dealer liquidity, giving its traders a commanding presence...
Money markets begin to tail off as rates fall
Reviewing the second quarter activity in primary markets and fund flows, we see the total notional outstanding in US fixed income totalled US$45.3 trillion,...
Ballooning margin costs hobble US treasury basis trade returns, research finds
Institutional investors betting on yield spread fluctuations between US treasuries are facing ballooning margin costs, new research from derivatives analytics firm OpenGamma reveals.
Rising margin...
ICE Bonds expands fixed income liquidity network with TS Imagine connection
TS Imagine has connected to ICE Bonds to offer clients access to its fixed income execution protocols and liquidity.
TS Imagine customers using the TS...
Technology: The competitive edge for a fixed income OMS
To better support alpha generation buy-side firms need to overcome any inertia created by legacy front office technology, writes Lynn Strongin Dodds.
Cost has always...
