Barnes on Bonds: Secondary Gilt Trip
To look at the whipsaw effect of the UK’s 23 September mini-budget on secondary UK bond trading, we have taken data from MarketAxess TraX,...
UBS Group completes next stage of Credit Suisse merger
UBS Group has completed the merger of UBS AG and Credit Suisse AG, completing the project within the expected timeline.
Credit Suisse AG has been...
How the ICMA got firm on bond pricing
Buy-side traders have long decried the lack of executable price in bond markets. For the best part of a decade the electrification of these...
FILS 2022: Big themes this year
The innovation day at the Fixed Income Leaders Summits (FILS) on Tuesday is held under the Chatham House rule preventing direct reporting of what...
Making the impossible, possible
Confidence in pricing data supports entirely new ways of trading through multiple trading protocols.
The DESK caught up with Matthew Walters, head of product for...
Greenwich Associates: Growing dealer-client instability
By Pia Hecher.
Market intelligence provider Greenwich Associates found that between 2014 and 2018, there was a 50% increase in the median size of clients’...
MarketAxess’s Axess All Prints to offer real-time price transparency in Europe
Fixed income market operator and data provider, MarketAxess, has launched Axess All Prints, a real-time transacted price service for the most actively traded fixed...
Erik Tham leaves UBS Wealth for MarketAxess
Erik Tham has joined MarketAxess as head of Private Banking, for Benelux and Switzerland, leaving his position as executive director at UBS Wealth Management,...
Houlihan Lokey boosts European team with Vieri Betti Guaraldi appointment
Houlihan Lokey has appointed Vieri Betti Guaraldi as a managing director of its capital markets group, part of its expansion of the European team.
In...
SOFR is off to the races
By Colm Murtagh, Head of U.S. Institutional Rates, Tradeweb.
There are (surely) more obviously thrilling ways to celebrate a new year, but in many ways, the market...
S&P Global warns of great debt ‘reset’ as economics break down
The level of global debt is reaching crisis point, according to analysis from S&P Global Ratings, with debt issuance leading to lower levels of...
BGC Group offers US dollar swap e-trading
BGC Group has launched a fully electronic trading platform for US dollar swaps. Briana Grazioso, director of e-sales at the firm, will lead the...
















