CME Group shutters proprietary chat service, onboards Symphony
CME Group has replaced its proprietary CME Chat messaging service with Symphony’s communications platform.
The transition was announced to clients on 25 February, and went...
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Coalition Greenwich sees US bond trading volumes falling in Q2
A report by market analysis form Coalition Greenwich, part of S&P Global, has found that after an active first quarter, corporate bond trading slowed...
Tradeweb reports December 2020 volume up nearly 30% year-on-year
Bond market operator Tradeweb has reported its total trading volume for December was US$18.2 trillion across its marketplaces for rates, credit, equities and money...
Ratings & Analysis: The Fed and BofE call out private credit’s gathering storm
Both the Bank of England and the Federal Reserve have recently trained their sights on private credit as a source of mounting financial stability...
European Commission fines investment banks €371 million for bond trading cartel
The European Commission has found that Bank of America, Natixis, Nomura, RBS (now NatWest), UBS, UniCredit and WestLB (now Portigon) have breached EU antitrust...
7 Chord’s EM sovereign and corporate bond feed prices on Nasdaq’s Quandl
Predictive bond prices and analytics provider, 7 Chord, has expanded its data offering on Nasdaq's Quandl. Bond investors and dealers can now leverage Python,...
Buy side finds trading on the turn no less challenging
When everyone was selling and no-one was buying liquidity vanished. However, as bond market outflows lessen, and in some cases reverse, many buy-side traders...
US electronic credit trading slows down in May
Average daily TRACE volume for US investment grade (IG) and high yield (HY) corporates slipped 10.8% from April to US$52.8 billion, according to MarketAxess...
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Buy side hails positive development of STP for bond issuance
Risk warning lights flashing on buy-side trading desks could be assuaged thanks to industry collaboration on primary markets.
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Denmark FSA investigating bond funds’ double-figure losses
Sources report the Danish Financial Services Authority (DFSA) has launched an investigation into fund losses from mortgage bond holdings, as rising interest rates have...
