SEC warns on counterparty risk in volatile markets
Staff of the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) division of trading and markets have urged broker-dealers and other market participants to remain vigilant to...
Coalition Greenwich: Buy-side data spend sees highest growth in fixed income
Spending is up across all categories of market data, with equities, fixed income and derivatives all expected to see a rise of more than...
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...
FILS 2024: UK rejects industry pressure to move up T+1 implementation date
There are still issues to be ironed out before the UK and Europe can follow the US to T+1, according to speakers at this...
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...
Finsmart set to launch DealPro for bond issuance this year
Finsmart plans to launch DealPro, a secure application to connecting underwriters and issuers in debt capital markets, later this year. The application is intended...
LedgerEdge goes live with eagerly anticipated bond trading platform
LedgerEdge, the distributed ledger ecosystem for trading bonds has gone live with a regulated corporate bond trading platform built using distributed ledger technology (DLT),...
Mystery surrounds APA failure in European bond markets
European bond market participants are keen to know which post-trade data reporter, known as an approved publication arrangement (APA), has ‘data quality issues’ resulting...
Tradeweb sees volume drop in June
Bond market operator, Tradeweb, has reported its average daily volume (ADV) in June was US$780.9 billion (bn), a decrease of 8.9% year-on-year (YoY), largely...
LTX and TransFICC partner for enhanced onboarding
Broadridge’s fixed income trading platform LTX has partnered with e-trading technology provider TransFICC to improve the venue onboarding process.
Through the partnership, corporate bond dealers...
TradingScreen and Imagine Software to merge; Flatley named CEO of new entity
Private equity firm Francisco Partners, which The DESK revealed has acquired TradingScreen, a provider of trading execution and order management software, is to merge...
Analysis: Market response to US Treasury’s increased borrowing needs
The US Treasury’s need to increase debt issuance, beyond market expectations, has had several effects. Firstly there was a ratings downgrade of the USA...
