CME reports record SOFR futures volume and open interest
Market operator and infrastructure provider, CME Group, has reported that a record 396,421 SOFR futures contracts were traded on 18 October 2021, surpassing the...
Data: A blank tape
Europe’s consolidated tape proposal is a start, but many details still need to be filled in for its value to be assessed. Lynn Strongin...
The inaugural European Markets Choice Awards – shortlist
Best Execution and The DESK are delighted to announce the inaugural European Markets Choice Awards sponsored by Instinet and Tradeweb.
The Awards recognise excellence and...
FILS 2021: Tapping into the ‘data revolution’
Data integration, the acceleration of electronification and the incorporation of environmental, social and governance factors in fixed income were highlighted as the big issues...
MiFID II are you ready for 2018?
With the introduction of MiFID II and MiFIR on 3 January 2018, the European financial markets will face the biggest regulatory change they have...
Investor demand: Dollar weakness trumps French political instability
Despite a French sovereign debt downgrade to A+ by Fitch over the weekend, the euro has risen to new highs for the year (1.188)...
Trading for Trees: Giving back through trading green bonds
Since its inception, the MarketAxess “Trading for Trees” initiative has helped to plant over 385,000 trees across a range of biodiversity, climate stability and...
“There is still an edge in systematic trading”
Systematic trading is often associated with highly liquid instruments, but asset managers have outlined success stories in less liquid debt markets, at the Fixed...
UBS integrates Bond Port with iQbonds to increase counterparty diversity
UBS has integrated its Bond Port trading venue with iQbonds, the bond trading platform of software provider valantic.
iQbonds is heavily used in the German...
Angela Lobo hired by Jefferies
Angela Lobo has joined Jefferies as head of eSales & sales chief operating officer (COO). Lobo, highly experienced and well-regarded in the electronic sales...
Dealers grow FICC revenues 15% in first quarter of 2021
Sell-side fixed income, currency and commodities (FICC) revenues saw growth of 15% in the first quarter of 2021, according to new research by analyst...
Barclays Canada hires new head of investment banking
Barclays has appointed Ryan Voegeli as head of investment banking for Canada. Voegeli will be based in Toronto.
Voegeli has twenty years of investment banking...
