Bloomberg changes pricing model for fixed income trading – globally
Bloomberg is radically changing its charging model for fixed income trading. It is to apply fees for fixed income trading across its venues in...
Derivatives : Migrating benchmarks : Dan Barnes
LIBOR: WHEN TO JUMP ON THE SOFR
The transition from the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) to overnight indexed swap rates is moving, but when...
Fixed Income TCA, who would have thought it?
Paul Reynolds, Head of FI Sales and Strategy at TradingScreen
For many years Fixed Income TCA has failed to adequately provide its users with a...
Viewpoint: Knowing the boundaries
Interview with Tim Whipman, head of business development at TransFICC
In February this year ESMA published its Opinion on the Trading Venue Perimeter, which provides...
Tradeweb completes A$125m Yieldbroker acquisition
Multi-asset market operator Tradeweb Markets has completed its acquisition of Yieldbroker, an Australian trading platform for Australian and New Zealand government bonds and interest...
Scotiabank, Rabo Securities and Huntington Capital Markets join DirectBooks
DirectBooks, the capital markets consortium founded to optimise the bond issuance process has signed up Scotiabank, Rabo Securities and Huntington Capital Markets to join...
Majdalani joins BNPP
Ray Majdalani has joined BNP Paribas as an emerging markets credit trader. He is based in London.
BNP Paribas reported €10 billion in net banking...
Euroclear expands LCH partnership with BTP settlement offering
Italian government debt traded on MTS and BrokerTec and cleared through LCH will be able to be settled on Euroclear from next year, the...
Europe unifies collateral management systems
The Eurosystem has launched the Eurosystem collateral management system (ECMS) as it works towards a more unified European financial framework.
As the fourth TARGET service...
ASIFMA names Peter Stein its new CEO
The Asia Securities Industry & Financial Markets Association (ASIFMA) has named Peter Stein its new CEO. Stein is currently CEO and managing director of...
Exploding post-MiFID II data myths
Gareth Coltman, Head of European Product Management at MarketAxess spoke to The DESK about the real impact MiFID II will have upon the data landscape.
How...
Rules & Ratings: Securitisation reforms “stifling” for CLOs, LMA says
The Loan Market Association (LMA) has struck back at the Financial Stability Board’s (FSB) positive initial assessment of post-2008 securitisation reforms, stating that the...
















