FILS 2021: Overcoming barriers to automation
Implementation costs are among the biggest hurdles for buy-side fixed income desks hoping to increase efficiency workflows.
Addressing delegates at the Fixed Leaders Summit in...
The Agency Broker Hub: Future trends of retail-size fixed income brokerage and its relevance...
By Massimiliano Raposio, Head of E-Commerce Distribution, Market Hub – IMI CIB Division, Intesa Sanpaolo.
The purpose of this short note is to summarise our views on...
In 2021 we see record secondary markets trading for European Government Bonds
By Emile Figueiras, European Government Bond Product Specialist, MarketAxess
Secondary market volumes in European government bonds (EGBs) have grown significantly over the last 2 years....
New senior trader at Nordea Asset Management
Mariana Olsson has joined Nordea Asset Management as senior trader. Olsson is highly experienced in the fixed income markets, having worked across the buy-...
Moody’s strips US of its final triple-A
Moody’s Investors Service has cut the long-term sovereign rating of the United States by one notch to Aa1, citing the inexorable rise in federal...
A surfeit of bonds?
Henry I of England famously died from eating a surfeit of lampreys – a delicacy until consumed to excess. Central banks might want to...
Insights & Analysis: Technology upends traditional credit trading liquidity patterns, Barclays says
In a recent research note Zornitsa Todorova, head of FICC research at Barclays contends that with over half of IG volumes now electronic, systematic...
The right tools for trading: Tim Monahan, ICE
Tim Monahan, senior director of product management at ICE explains how ICE continues to develop services and products that better support traders in fixed...
Utility mooted to reduce data onboarding friction
While data has become more abundant across the fixed income ecosystem, making it useful remains a major challenge.
“Some of our desks manage hundreds of...
Tradeweb implements block trading in Chinese bonds on Bond Connect
By Pia Hecher.
Bond trading operator platform Tradeweb Markets has launched block trading functionality in Chinese yuan (CNY) bonds on Bond Connect, the mutual market...
Soft volatility hinders US rates e-trading
Volatility was down 27% year-on-year (YoY) and down 6% month-on-month (MoM), with the MOVE index recording 80.43. This is the index’s lowest level since...
Barclays Bank adopts CLS’s CCS service
Barclays Bank has gone live on CLS’s cross currency swaps (CCS) service.
The CCS service, an extension of the CLSSettlement payment-versus-payment settlement solution, mitigates settlement...
