Trade associations urge EU to ditch ‘uncompetitive’ active account requirement proposal
A number of trade associations have urged EU policymakers to delete the proposed Active Account Requirement, under the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR 3.0).
The...
Viewpoint: Ruben Costa-Santos & Milan Borkovec
Fixed income analytics comes of age.
By Ruben Costa-Santos, Head of Multi-Asset Analytics, and Milan Borkovec, Head of Analytics Quantitative Research at Virtu Financial.
Under MiFID...
Bloomberg rival Money.Net partners OpenFin to scale up
By Shobha Prabhu-Naik.
Money.Net, a provider of live streaming financial market data, has selected desktop operating system OpenFin to deploy and deliver its software at...
MeTheMoneyShow – Episode 26 (Women in Finance Awards 2020)
Dan Barnes and Terry Flanagan discuss some of the highlights of the sixth annual Markets Media, Women in Finance Awards.
To view the virtual awards...
The Book: Ukraine executes first govie switch auction
The Ministry of Finance of Ukraine has completed the country’s first government bond switch auction in partnership with the National Bank of Ukraine.
Switch auctions...
Credit: The liquid, green bond sea
By Dan Barnes.
Green bonds issuance is booming and investor appetite growing, making access to markets increasingly important.
The size of the green bond market reached...
Global equity volatility insights
Bank of America:
Global Equity Volatility Insights - FULL REPORT
Germany issues first tokenised bonds on DLT during ECB trials
Clearstream, DekaBank and DZ Bank have issued two tokenised €5 million bonds using distributed ledger technology (DLT).
The bonds were issued during the ECB’s trials...
Davis Polk boosts asset management investment with three new partners
Davis Polk has hired Andrew Ahern, Alisa Waxman and Luke Eldridge as partners in the investment management practice in New York.
Ahern advises sponsors of...
Is European credit electronification bouncing back?
There has been a noted proportional increase in electronification of US credit trading, as tracked by Coalition Greenwich. However, metrics around European trading found...
Bond market axes struggle in electronified markets, ICMA finds
ICMA and the FIX Trading Community have issued a white paper examining issues with market axes in an increasingly electronic bond market, warning that...
Bank of England: Basel III regulation hurts repo for smaller asset managers
By Shobha Prabhu Naik.
A working paper written by Antonis Kotidis and Neeltje van Horen, staff for the Bank of England, has identified that the...
