On the Desk: Engineering better trading
Honing the trading function is an art; it requires an engineer’s eye for improving systems but a leader’s eye for putting the team first.
How...
Redburn sees value in bond market venue M&A
Analysis by broker Redburn has found that major exchanges – in which it included MarketAxess, the fixed income trading venue, and interdealer broker TP...
Trading protocol gains bolster liquidity sourcing
Perspectives vary as to which newer methods of buying and selling bonds will most help institutional traders in the next year, but there is...
Broadridge launches new repo solution
By Flora McFarlane.
New York-based Broadridge Financial Solutions has launched its Repo Order Quote (ROQ) system. The multi-market aggregation and execution tool for repo markets...
MarketAxess sees big increases in Eurobonds and emerging markets ADV in August
MarketAxess, electronic trading platform for fixed-income securities, has seen its total credit average daily volume for August 2023 inch up by 2% YoY, while...
Beyond Liquidity: Rebundling Research Will Not Increase Demand for UK SMEs
With the implementation of MiFID II in 2018 came the unbundling of payments for investment research from trading commissions. The perceived benefit of unbundling...
TORA integrates BondCliQ’s US corporate bond consolidated quote and trade data
Order and execution management system (OEMS) provider, TORA, has integrated its OEMS with BondCliQ’s US corporate bond consolidated quote and trade data. The integration...
OMS, EMS or something in between?
Many firms are considering merging their order management systems (OMSs) and execution management systems (EMSs), but oversimplification could be counterproductive, delegates at this year’s...
DBS joins LCH SwapClear as the first direct member in Singapore
DBS Bank has joined SwapClear, part of LCH, the clearing business for London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) business. The bank has become the first...
Sustainable bond issuance now 12% of total market
A report co-authored by Nicholas Pfaff, Valérie Guillaumin, Simone Utermarck, Ozgur Altun and Stanislav Egorov of the International Capital Markets Association (ICMA), has found...
MTS: Building a better interest rate swaps market
Tom Harry, Head of Cash, Derivatives & Regulation Product Management at MTS
MTS has a strong track record of building robust interdealer and dealer-to-client franchises,...
French treasuries saw widest YtD median bid/ask spread following election
Following French president Emmanuel Macron’s unexpected snap parliamentary election on 9 June, the median bid/ask spread in French treasury bonds was at its widest...
