Seeing through the pricing mirage
Traders and PMs found real value in using axes over onscreen prices during the recent liquidity crisis.
Neptune’s streaming of dealer axes continues to grow in value...
MarketAxess holds US credit trading high ground in April volatility
A burst of spread widening and credit ETF related trading pushed US electronic credit trading to another record in April.
TRACE volumes for investment grade...
Origination: Carnival eyes IG market with €1 billion issuance
Carnival Corporation and plc have closed their €1 billion senior unsecured notes private offering. The senior unsecured notes have a coupon of 4.125% and...
BlackRock acquires Preqin
BlackRock has agreed to acquire private markets data provider Preqin in a £2.55 billion transaction, expanding its private markets capabilities.
Through the acquisition, BlackRock will...
Visualising aggressive pricing pressure on trading costs
Analysing year-to-date volume and trade number data from MarketAxess’s TraX database for US credit, and correlating it with the weekly average MarketAxess CP+ bid-ask...
Credit Agricole, R. Seelaus & Co. and Siebert Williams Shank join DirectBooks
Credit Agricole Corporate & Investment Bank, R. Seelaus & Co. and Siebert Williams Shank have joined the primary bond market platform operator DirectBooks. The...
Industry viewpoint: Automation – the road ahead
The DESK talks with Steve Toland, co-Founder of TransFICC about developments in fixed income workflow automation, what factors are driving this and why this...
Tradeweb reports US$18.5 trillion traded in September
Market operator Tradeweb has reported a total trading volume for September of US$18.5 trillion, with an average daily volume (ADV) for the month of...
Feedback on Tradeweb ICE Constant Maturity Treasury Rates requested by 18 September
Fixed income market operator Tradeweb has published a paper along with Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) Benchmark Administration (IBA) introducing the daily Tradeweb ICE Constant Maturity...
Sherpa Edge announces client go-live after summer; Lynge Jensen departure
Danish-based outsourced trading provider, Sherpa Edge, has confirmed it is in final negotiations with its first customer, a Danish asset manager, with which it...
Coalition Greenwich: Top market structure trends for 2023
“We are about to see how changes in global market structure and regulation that started to play out in 2022 will impact markets in...
Michelle Neal: On taking great responsibility
Having managed the market divisions at several top-tier financial institutions, Michelle Neal is now responsible for supporting the most significant fixed income market in...
