Hiring spree sees banks bolster fixed-income desks
By Flora McFarlane.
A Greenwich Associates report indicates banks are rebuilding their sales and trading desks in response to several quarters of growth in fixed...
Exclusive: LedgerEdge to go into administration
LedgerEdge, the distributed ledger-based fixed income trading venue, has closed down.
Founder, David Rutter, said, “We can confirm LedgerEdge has closed, three years after...
Kulikovs swaps TD for National Bank of Canada
Anton Kulikovs has joined the National Bank of Canada as an investment grade (IG) credit trader. He is based in New York.
One of Canada’s...
Citadel Securities making markets in Treasuries on Tradeweb
By Dan Barnes.
Citadel Securities has become a liquidity provider on the Tradeweb institutional US Treasury marketplace, for dealer-to-client trading. Citadel Securities’ expansion into Tradeweb’s...
Sherpa Edge appoints Frank Lynge Jensen as chief trader
Outsourced trading specialist Sherpa Edge has appointed Frank Lynge Jensen as chief trader. Lynge Jensen has 21 years’ experience as a trader, working as...
CSDR: Settlement ‘discipline’ could punish market liquidity
A regulatory shadow hangs over the market as agencies battle to contain the impact. Chris Hall reports.
As part of the European Commission’s efforts to...
FILS USA 2023: Traders test the water with new execution methods
The ability to use new trading protocols can be highly dependent upon the funds that a desk trades for and the types of instruments...
ION integrates fixed income solutions into XTP Execution
ION has integrated its fixed income solutions with its XTP Execution service, expanding client access to futures markets for trading and market data.
ION’s XTP...
MTS BondsPro pushes into Mexican bond markets
Fixed income market operator MTS Markets, part of London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), has expanded its reach into Mexico via a marketing agreement with...
Tapping the expanding universe of credit futures and options
Cboe has launched options on Cboe iBoxx iShares Corporate Bond Index futures, and widened its trading hours to further expand the user base and...
TP ICAP takes a minority stake in ipushpull
TP ICAP, the interdealer broker, market operator and data provider, has taken a minority stake in the UK financial technology firm, ipushpull.
The Series A...
Placing European traders at the wheel of automation
By Charlie Campbell-Johnston.
The promise of a fully automated over-the-counter (OTC) workflow might sound like trading technology’s highest calling. After all, the idea of applying...
