Fixed income e-trading in review with Burton-Taylor
A new report by analyst firm Burton-Taylor entitled ‘US Corporate Bond Electronification’ has found that the different electronic execution systems and platform providers in...
Rahul Mapara swaps BlackRock for Taula Capital Management
Rahul Mapara has left BlackRock after a 14-year tenure at the firm, joining Taula Capital Management.
Mapara has more than 17 years of industry experience,...
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...
Enrico Bruni and Troy Dixon to lead Tradeweb global markets
Enrico Bruni and Troy Dixon have been named co-heads of global markets at Tradeweb effective January 2025
Troy Dixon joins from Hollis Park Partners, a...
CME Group to launch Chicago UST CLOB
CME Group is launching a second BrokerTec central limit order book (CLOB) for cash US Treasuries in Q3. Client testing begins on 27 April.
The...
Control is the best defence
By Chris Roberts | 29 May 2024
With a growing level of scrutiny coming from European Regulatory bodies about the quality of data reporting, firms...
Bloomberg facilitates European government bonds electronic list trade
Bloomberg has executed the first electronic list trade in European government bonds though its multilateral trading facility (MTF), with its evaluated pricing service (BVAL)...
Get your trade dressed to kill (or execute)
Getting a trade to look attractive to a counterparty gets harder the more illiquid, large, and specific it is. As the purpose of a...
ESMA lacks data to test bond market concerns
By Pia Hecher.
Regulators have acknowledged that bond market data is so sparse, even post-MiFID II, that they are unable to test execution quality concerns....
Clearstream provides transparency into bond liquidity
Adel Humayun, Analyst in the Quantitative Analytics team at Deutsche Börse, and Catherine Jimenez, Head of Strategic Market Development in Eurobonds Product at Clearstream discuss the recently...
US primary dealer bond trading hits record low
US Treasury market volatility saw a decline in March, according to Coalition Greenwich’s April Data Spotlight on US rates trading. The MOVE Index monthly...
Derivatives – Viable alternatives
Tougher capital and liquidity constraints for OTC assets are boosting exchange-traded products appeal to the buy side. Anna Reitman reports.
As trading over-the-counter (OTC) for fixed...
















