AFME report on rates trading suggests enhanced transparency could boost liquidity
A report by the Association of Financial Markets in Europe, and investment data management provider, Finbourne, has found enhanced transparency could potentially boost liquidity...
Tradeweb processes first electronic iBoxx standardised total return swap trade
Fixed income market operator Tradeweb has completed the first-ever fully electronic standardized total return swap trade based on IHS Markit’s iBoxx USD Liquid High...
Symphony partners with Saphyre to offer integrated pre- and post-trade solution
Markets’ infrastructure and communications platform, Symphony, has partnered with fintech firm Saphyre to integrate patented AI technology into pre and post-trade workflows for front,...
TABB Group shuts down
Larry Tabb, the eponymous founder of market anayst firm TABB Group, has announced the firm will close. Making the announcement via Twitter, he wrote:...
US credit e-trading race tightens, November volumes fall
US credit e-trading volumes dipped for both MarketAxess and Tradeweb in November, the gap between the two platforms narrowing towards the end of the...
Bond market operators see high yield down in Q3 2023 YoY with emerging markets...
MarketAxess saw its US high-yield average daily volumes (ADV) for Q3 2023 drop 20.4% against Q3 2022, standing at US$1.3 billion, while high-grade ADV...
Tradeweb sees credit default swap volume double in March
Tradeweb has reported total trading volume for March 2022 of US$28.2 trillion, with US$811 billion in credit default swaps, up from US$330 billion in...
Issuance up in lower rated debt
Analysis by Morgan Stanley’s team has found that, despite the slowing down of bond issuance globally in August, the higher levels of activity in...
Trumid upgrades US corporate bond predictive pricing tool
Trumid launches its enhanced Fair Value Model Price (FVMP) tool, which aims to deliver predictive pricing for around 22,000 US corporate bonds every 30...
Exclusive: New xBK head, Dragan Skoko, discusses BNY Mellon’s new outsourced trading
BNY Mellon has launched a new outsourced trading offering for buy-side institutions globally, including asset managers and asset owners.
The offering by BNY Mellon...
Trumid launches continuous bond pricing platform
By Flora McFarlane.
Trumid has announced the launch of its new service, the Fair Value Model Price (FVMP), for continuous bond pricing which produces a...
Fed’s Treasury Market Practices Group sheds light on March liquidity crisis
Minutes of the 31 March meeting of the Federal Reserve’s Treasury Market Practices Group (TMPG), including an update on a 19 March call between...
