Viewpoint: Lifting the pre-trade curtain
Michael Richter, an executive director at S&P Global Market Intelligence, and head of the Transaction Cost Analysis (TCA) business for EMEA explains the key...
ING issues first commercial paper trade via Onbrane
ING Bank has completed its first Euro Commercial Paper (CP) transaction, issued by Dutch company Royal Friesland Campina, on the Onbrane platform for primary...
China opens up repo market with Bloomberg partnership
China’s Bond Connect programme has partnered with Bloomberg as it seeks to improve renminbi (RMB) bond market liquidity and boost foreign investment.
Bond Connect, run...
CME Group names Mike Dennis global head of fixed income
CME Group has named Mike Dennis global head of fixed income, effective 5 August.
Dennis will oversee the firm’s largest, most actively traded global benchmark...
BondCliQ corporate bond pre-trade data now available to FactSet users
BondCliQ, a central market system for the OTC corporate bond market, has partnered with FactSet, a global financial digital platform and enterprise solutions provider,...
Finsight acquires Credit Flow Research
Capital markets technology and market data firm Finsight has expanded its US fixed income market provision with the acquisition of Credit Flow Research.
The acquisition...
MarketAxess: Europe seeing elevated rates trading volume
Following the news that yields for Eurozone government bonds have been rising this week, MarketAxess has shared average daily volume data from the European...
Emerging market bonds issuance and returns grow
This week we examine the very directional movements of emerging markets (EM) assets under management (AUM), due to investment flows and growing issuance. With...
CME Group’s international rates ADV up 42% in Q2
Market operator and infrastructure provider CME Group has reported its international average daily volume (ADV) reached 5.1 million contracts in Q2 2021, up 6%...
Yarkova-Valente joins Trading Technologies
Oxana Yarkova-Valente has joined Trading Technologies as a sales executive.
Yarkova-Valente has close to 25 years of industry experience and joins the firm from MTS...
Tim Cook joins Tradeweb
Tim Cook has been named director for emerging markets at market operator Tradeweb.
Cook was the head of business development at LedgerEdge until the...
ICMA says execution and order management systems are not trading venues
The International Capital Markets Association (ICMA) has responded to the European Securities and Market Authority (ESMA) consultation into the ‘trading venue perimeter’ by arguing...
