Clearlake Capital and Motive Partners to acquire BETA+ from LSEG
Private equity firms Clearlake Capital Group and Motive Partners have agreed to acquire the BETA+ assets from London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), encompassing the...
The DESK’s Trading Intentions Survey 2020 : Unpicking the buy-side workflow
We reveal the buy side’s use of platforms for pre-trade data, executing orders in the market and trading venues.
Trading Intentions Survey highlights
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Biscardi joins MarketAxess
Experienced bond trader Tom Biscardi has been appointed senior open trading specialist at MarketAxess.
The trading platform reported US$42.9 billion in total average daily volume...
SEC: Leech charged with cherry picking trades for WAMCO funds
The SEC has charged Ken Leech with fraud. The bond trader was former co-chief investment officer at Western Asset Management (WAMCO), which holds US$336.1...
RBC joins ICE Clear Credit as clearing member
The Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) has joined Intercontinental Exchange’s (ICE) credit default swaps clearinghouse, ICE Clear Credit, as a clearing member.
Following its membership,...
The reward of risk
By Larry E. Fondren, Founder & CEO, DelphX Capital Markets Inc.
Traditional risk/reward comparisons treat the effective cost of an investment’s risk as a decrement...
Over stimulating?
The biggest new-issue news over the past week has been the biggest ever European stimulus package – the NextGenerationEU (NGEU) recovery plan – and...
Is your EMS still an EMS according to ESMA?
A decision by the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) on the ‘trading venue perimeter’ consultation which denotes when trading systems are regulated trading...
MarketAxess volumes up 16.4%; EM and all-to-all lead growth
By Pia Hecher.
Venue operator and data provider MarketAxess has announced its second quarter results with significant upward trends in overall trading volume, including Open...
TradeTech Europe 2020 has been postponed
TradeTech 2020 has been postponed, with event organiser WBR making the following statement:
'We at TradeTech Europe 2020 have been working around the clock over...
FILS 2024: “We really want to see streaming”
Increasing levels of indexation, exchange traded fund (ETF) use, and data availability paint of picture of deeper, more automated credit markets in the future,...
Brian Hickey joins LedgerEdge as firm deepens bench
Brian Hickey, a veteran buy-side trader with a long tenure at State Street Global Advisors (SGGA), has joined bond market and distributed ledger specialist,...
