IRS electronification: 20 years in the making
With the 20th anniversary of Tradeweb’s interest rate swaps (IRS) marketplace around the corner, the firm’s head of US institutional Rates, Bhas Nalabothula, looks...
ICE: Measuring and managing climate risk in debt markets
As the physical risks associated with climate rapidly shift, borrowers, lenders and investors need to better understand their exposure. Larry Lawrence, head of sustainable...
Do banks want credit trading to look like FX?
The end game of market making commoditisation is that a smaller number of players provide a vast volume of liquidity to the majority of...
UK sees first tokenised collateral FX transaction
Lloyds Banking Group and Aberdeen Investments have completed the first foreign exchange trade using tokenised collateral in the UK.
Tokenised units of Aberdeen Investment’s money...
“There is no liquidity”: Bond traders report market conditions never seen before
Buy-side bond traders are facing a considerable challenge in matching their investor’s demand for fixed income assets as equity markets plummet. Volumes are up,...
FILS Day 2: Heat around the consolidated bond tape
One of the more positive messages from the second day of the Fixed Income Leaders’ Summit (FILS) was regarding positive progress on the development...
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...
OpenDoor closes for business
OpenDoor, the trading venue for US Treasuries, has ceased trading, effective 13 January 2021.
In a statement posted online, Susan Estes, CEO and president of...
SOFR is off to the races
By Colm Murtagh, Head of U.S. Institutional Rates, Tradeweb.
There are (surely) more obviously thrilling ways to celebrate a new year, but in many ways, the market...
The ‘venue’ question raised by ESMA’s new order execution consultation
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) is consulting on the development of technical standards (RTS) specifying the criteria for establishing and assessing the...
Coalition Greenwich: US Treasury e-trading volumes hit record in February
US Treasury volumes saw an average daily notional value (ADNV) of US$918 billion in February 2024, Coalition Greenwich’s March Data Spotlight has reported, up...
Are issuers predicting a 6% Fed Funds rate?
Bond issuance has continued to beat expectations in February 2023. Last month saw 774 investment grade bonds issued globally, for a notional value of...
