Bank of England tacitly acknowledges impact of capital rules on market making
The identical nature of proprietary trading and market making has been highlighted in a paper published by the UK’s Prudential Regulatory Authority (PRA) the...
Are average trade sizes really falling in the US?
Earlier this year we noted that average trade sizes were down considerably on 2022, but being wary of mean reversion, we wanted to revisit...
Siemens’ digital bond issuance bypasses syndicate banks
Siemens has become one of the first companies in Germany to issue a digital bond, in accordance with Germany’s Electronic Securities Act (Gesetz über...
Beyond Liquidity: Rebundling Research Will Not Increase Demand for UK SMEs
With the implementation of MiFID II in 2018 came the unbundling of payments for investment research from trading commissions. The perceived benefit of unbundling...
BNY Mellon & GLMX connect buy-side repo trading to triparty
BNY Mellon and fintech firm, GLMX, are allowing buy-side clients to direct repo trades at point of execution to BNY Mellon's Triparty platform.
This...
Jefferies Q224 revenues buoyed by strong debt underwriting
Jefferies’ Q2 results have seen the investment banking and capital markets firm’s reported revenue hit US$1.66 billion, a 59.6% increase against the same period...
IOSCO sets pre-hedging guard rails, amid calls for ban
The International Organisation of Securities Commissions (IOSCO), has published its final report on pre-hedging, amid call for the practice to be banned, and allegations...
US liquidity costs spiked more violently than in Europe
Bid-ask spreads have widened massively in recent weeks, according to MarketAxess CP+ data, with the price in US investment grade nearly doubling in the...
Jan-Hendrik Röske joins Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan
Jan-Hendrik Röske has joined the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (OTPP) as principal for developed markets rates and FX.
The pension plan holds CA$255.8 billion in...
Coalition Greenwich: Asian bond markets see electronic trading adoption accelerate
New analysis by research firm Coalition Greenwich has found that, while much of the e-trading growth in Asia to date has come via relatively...
Insight & Analysis: Eighty percent of liquidity disappeared from long bond future post 2...
Ten ticks’ depth of order book collapsed as liquidity providers fled unprecedented volatility, analysis from The DESK shows.
After an initial flight to safety on...
FILS 2021: Next steps to automating the bond market
Data analysis, interoperability and flexibility are the top priorities for automating the bond markets, delegates at the 2021 Fixed Income Leaders Summit (FILS) in...
