On The DESK : Alex Brause : The central bank’s buy-side trader
Balancing leadership and discipline with greater autonomy in trading. Alexander Brause speaks to The DESK and explains his role as head of fixed income...
OpenFin Appoints Vicky Sanders as Chief Digital Officer
OpenFin has hired Vicky Sanders in the new role of chief digital officer as the operating system aims to accelerate out-of-the-box connectivity and interoperability...
Asia’s Electronic Trading Wave Reaches Swaps
By Andrea Sbalchiero, IRS Product Manager, Asia at Tradeweb.
Electronic trading is on the march in Asia. One example is Japanese Government Bonds, where automation...
Tokenised Treasury transactions tested ahead of DTCC go-live
Franklin Templeton has exchanged a tokenised US Treasury for tokenised cash (USDCx) with Virtu Financial in real-time as the industry prepares for DTCC’s tokenised...
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...
New SEC Fixed Income Committee to cover liquidity issues this week
By Flora McFarlane.
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)’s Fixed Income Market Structure Advisory Committee, formed in November 2017, will hold its first meeting on...
Bloomberg warns on SEC extending exchange rules into bond market communication protocols
In a letter penned by Bloomberg’s Gregory Babyak, global head of regulatory Affairs and Gary Stone regulatory analyst and market structure strategist, the market...
Origination: KfW drives the leading edge of bond issuance
The supranational, sub-sovereign and agency (SSA) bond issuers are expected to be the most forward looking issuer group in evolving primary debt markets.
The DESK...
Buy side wants new tools in primary market tsunami
Several buy-side traders report new primary bond market tools could come online this year in the US, with dealer consortium DirectBooks expected to step...
ICE Bonds sees record notional volume for portfolio trading
Market operator, Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), has reported record volumes for fixed income portfolio trading during the fourth quarter of 2020.
Over US$1.9 billion in US-based...
The right way to trade credit
Of course, there is no right way to trade all credit, but there are clearly advantages in trading credit in such a way that...
“A vital first step”; FCA transparency regime sees industry approval
The International Capital Markets Association (ICMA) and Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) have issued their full support for the FCA’s new transparency...
