What is driving down EM trading costs?
Analysis of trade size and bid-ask spread data from MarketAxess’s CP+ pricing feed and Trax market data, which tracks activity across markets, indicates that...
Buy side hails positive development of STP for bond issuance
Risk warning lights flashing on buy-side trading desks could be assuaged thanks to industry collaboration on primary markets.
It seems incongruous that the 50-year old...
SEC signs off US Treasury clearing for cash and repo
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has adopted a rule designed to reduce risk in the US Treasury market by ensuring that more...
CanDeal officially made ‘Designated Benchmark Administrator’ in Canada
The Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) and the Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) have designated CanDeal Benchmark Administration Services as a ‘Designated Benchmark Administrator' and...
Bank of England warns of risks in fast fixed income markets
By TheDESK
Chris Salmon, executive director for markets at the Bank of England has warned that risk management techniques need to develop to handle the...
Treasury bill supply and ON RRP investment
By Gara Afonso, Marco Cipriani, Catherine Huang, Gabriele La Spada, and Sergio Olivas.
Take-up at the Federal Reserve’s Overnight Reverse Repo Facility (ON RRP) increased...
Yusuke Tanaka promoted at MUFG Trust
MUFG Trust has appointed Yusuke Tanaka as deputy general manager of its head office in Tokyo.
Tanaka has more than 23 years of industry experience,...
ION announces LatentZero OMS connection to Trumid
ION Markets, has connected its LatentZero order management system (OMS) to Trumid, the fixed income electronic trading platform. The link adds connectivity to ION...
Pumped up projections: The Arizona gym muni fraud
The SEC has filed charges against three Arizonian individuals, alleging they defrauded investors by falsifying revenue documents for a US$284 million municipal bond issuance...
Press Release: Alex Pugh joins Markets Media’s news desk
Markets Media is pleased to announce the appointment of Alex Pugh as a reporter for the Markets Media news desk, working across titles.
Dan...
Month-end activity in alternative protocols
By Misha Girshfeld, Research Specialist and Grant Lowensohn, Senior Research Analyst at MarketAxess. 25 October, 2022
Highlights
We have seen an average increase of about 11%...
EC fines Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Crédit Agricole, and Credit Suisse for bond...
The European Commission (EC) has fined Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Crédit Agricole, and Credit Suisse €28.5 million for breaching EU antitrust rules, as...
