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...
Market disruption spreads beyond Ukraine and Russia
Traders are reported that liquidity across developed and emerging markets is being hit, with trades taking far longer to complete and price formation suffering...
Second quarter issuance recovers after soft April and May
Morgan Stanley has reported that June issuance increased 13% year-on-year (YoY) following a 34% drop in April and 3% decline in May.
“Strong June issuance...
BoE sets code of conduct for repo and securities lending
A new voluntary Money Markets Code setting out the standards and best practice expected from participants in the deposit, repo and securities lending markets...
UBS: The client-led dealer driving best execution
Traditional sell-side firms can engage most effectively in fixed income by enabling, rather than pushing, buy-side strategy.
As markets face considerable operational pressure, delivering change...
Plan to replace Dodd-Frank formally introduced in House of Representatives
The chairman of the Financial Services Committee in the US House of Representatives, Jeb Hensarling, has formally introduced the Financial CHOICE Act, a proposed...
Project Amber: Dealer consortium developing new bond trading venue
A consortium of sell-side firms is developing a trading platform in the fixed income space, which could rival existing venues including Bloomberg, MarketAxess and...
Treasury bill supply and ON RRP investment
By Gara Afonso, Marco Cipriani, Catherine Huang, Gabriele La Spada, and Sergio Olivas.
Take-up at the Federal Reserve’s Overnight Reverse Repo Facility (ON RRP) increased...
Morgan Stanley: Portfolio trading volumes have grown by 56% in 2020
Research by Morgan Stanley’s market strategist team has found that use of portfolio trading in the US corporate bond market has increased by 56%...
Virtu signs up two bond ETF issuers for new NAV pricing tool
Exchange-traded fund (ETF) issuers Charles Schwab Investment Management and WisdomTree Asset Management are now using the eNAV ETF analytics tool, developed by electronic liquidity...
Broadridge launches new repo solution
By Flora McFarlane.
New York-based Broadridge Financial Solutions has launched its Repo Order Quote (ROQ) system. The multi-market aggregation and execution tool for repo markets...
Rules & Ratings: FTSE Russell launches Fixed Income TPI Index and TPI Focused Glidepath...
FTSE Russell has rolled out two new indices – the FTSE Fixed Income TPI Climate Transition Index Series and the FTSE Fixed Income TPI...
