Viewpoint: MarketAxess to increase automation with Adaptive Auto-X
MarketAxess is aiming to initially launch Adaptive Auto-X in the first half of this year to provide clients with algorithmic workflows and allow them...
CME Group to offer futures and options on Treasuries repo financing rate
By Flora McFarlane.
CME Group has announced that will launch futures and options based on the broad Treasuries repurchase agreement (repo) financing rate, set as...
Citi invests in Cicada to boost institutional e-Trading of Mexican govies
Citi has made a minority investment in Cicada Technologies in order to boost the electronification of the US$500 billion Mexican fixed income market. Citi...
Jesse Eberle joins Fidelity
Fidelity Investments has tapped Jesse Eberle as director, for the electronic trading product.
He is charged with steering the development of the firm’s Beacon fixed-income...
Octaura partners with CreditSights for enhanced data provisions
Clients of syndicated loans electronic trading, data and analytics firm Octaura will soon be able to access LevFin Insights (FLI) data and news through...
Beyond Liquidity: T+1 Testing Begins
DTCC, the US post-trade market infrastructure, formally started the testing program for moving to a shorter settlement cycle on 14 August so market participants...
Securities financing: SFTR threatens smaller players
By Lynn Strongin Dodds.
The delay to the regulation gives market participants more breathing room but they should not get too comfortable. Lynn Strongin Dodds looks...
FILS USA: The most valuable fixed income asset is ‘People’
Much of the talk at last week's Fixed Income Leaders Summit in Boston centred around the mechanics of buying and selling bonds: data and...
Trading for Trees
In 2019 MarketAxess launched their “Trading for Trees” program, under which five trees are planted by One Tree Planted, a partner charitable organization, for...
KNG Securities appoints Edward Williams to emerging markets sales team
Fixed-income investment bank KNG Securities has appointed Edward Williams to its sales team as an emerging markets (EM) specialist.
Williams brings 30 years of experience...
Tradeweb founder and Broadridge to launch bond trading venue
Broadridge Financial Solutions has conducted live trades on a new artificial intelligence (AI)-driven corporate bond trading platform, LTX, developed in partnership with Jim Toffey,...
Investor demand: French no-confidence vote sharpens pressure on OAT-Bund spread
French Prime Minister François Bayrou’s call for a no confidence vote was scheduled for the 8 September late on Monday 25 August. Aiming to...
