BBVA, BME and IDB issue regulated bond in Spain registered with blockchain
BME, through Iberclear, BBVA and the Interamerican Development Bank (IDB), have completed what they claim is the first bond issuance in Spain listed in...
MarketAxess brings e-trading to Indian govies
MarketAxess has become the first firm to offer electronic trading in India with the launch of an Indian Government Bond (IGB) trading solution for...
Credit Index Futures: Increasing price transparency, liquidity and capital efficiency to credit markets
Davide Masi, fixed income and currencies product manager, and Vassily Pascalis, senior vice president, fixed income sales at Eurex, discuss developing the asset class...
D2C US rates e-trading pops in sleepy summer
A quiet summer has allowed dealer-to-client electronic trading levels in US rates to reach a yearly high, Coalition Greenwich suggests.
Electronic trading dropped by just...
ICMA 2026: Signs of US decline could be Europe’s time to shine
Geopolitical turmoil is increasing global fragmentation but could be a driving force for European consolidation, according to speakers at ICMA’s 2026 AGM and Conference...
CFTC Chair Behnam to Step Down Amid Regulatory Transition
Rostin Behnam, chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, has announced his departure after steering the agency through a transformative period in digital and...
Proprietary trading firms seek fixed income investment expansion in year ahead
Proprietary trading firms, buoyed by an optimistic outlook for the year ahead, are investing in trading new asset classes, particularly fixed income, with government...
Risk appetite increasing as investor confidence rises 5.1 Points in August
State Street Global Markets has released the results of the State Street Investor Confidence Index (ICI) for August 2022.
The Global Investor Confidence Index increased...
Change is jangling money market funds
Lynn Strongin Dodds looks at the impact of liquidity and settlement reforms.
Regulatory reform, which has been a very long time coming in the US$4.46...
Nash Panchal named new CIO at MarketAxess
Bond market operator, MarketAxess, has named Nash Panchal to succeed Nick Themelis as MarketAxess’ chief information officer (CIO). MarketAxess previously announced Themelis’ retirement from...
The big changes to watch in fixed income market structure through 2024
Next year will bring new developments in market structure, stemming both from regulatory and political change. The DESK asked Jennifer Keser, head of market...
Singer Capital Markets appoints Gareth Henderson head of trading
Investment banking firm Singer Capital Markets has appointed Gareth Henderson its new head of trading.
Henderson has been head of market making at Singer Capital...
