Sterling expands to cover fixed income securities
Order management, risk and margin technology provider Sterling Trading Tech will support fixed income securities by the end of Q2 2024, it has announced.
This...
BGC reportedly shuts Lucera LUMEAlfa; preps FMX for soft launch
According to sources, BGC Partners has shuttered its pre-trade data business, Lucera LUMEAlfa, closing the final chapter on pre-trade data pioneer Algomi, and aligning...
7 Chord and Bonds.com partner to deliver executable pricing data
Bonds.com and predictive pricing and analytics firm 7 Chord have partnered to combine bonds.com’s executable pre-trade pricing data with BondDroid AI, 7 Chord's real-time...
Analysis: Fixed income e-trading platforms still seeing outperformance in March
Major electronic bond trading platforms have reported record trading volumes across several sectors of fixed income, supporting the contention that increased adoption last year...
European trading firms eye derivatives expansion in APAC
European proprietary trading firms and hedge funds have set their sights firmly on the APAC region, as they look to expand derivatives trading in...
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...
On The Desk: Carl James: On changing trader culture
Moving to a data-led model of trading requires a change in culture across the desk, as Pictet Asset Management’s head of Fixed Income Trading...
Navigating the trade automation (r)evolution
By Mark Russell, Managing Director, Head of Credit, International, at Tradeweb.
No one can deny the power of innovative technology to disrupt and transform pre-existing...
Sub-2bps bid-ask spreads in US IG are below pre-crisis levels
The US investment grade (IG) credit market is seeing very tight bid-ask spreads in 2021, according to the Composite Plus (CP+) data supplied by...
European Markets Choice Awards 2021 – The Finalists
Best Execution and The DESK are delighted to announce the finalists in the inaugural European Markets Choice Awards, sponsored by Instinet and Tradeweb.
The Awards...
Could the Twitter hangover really hurt credit liquidity?
Banks’ support for market making is tied to the bonds they carry on their books, and the cost that has for their balance sheets....
WaveLabs signs up its first hedge fund client
WaveLabs, developer of the specialist fixed income trading technology, eLiSA, has signed up its first hedge fund client.
The eLiSA execution management system (EMS), created...
