Origination: European leveraged debt issuance jumps YoY
European leveraged debt market issuance was up 61% year-on-year in Q3 according to an AFME report, reaching €147 billion – but fell 11% quarter-on-quarter...
Pham replaces Behnam as CFTC chair
Caroline Pham has been named acting chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), replacing Rostin Behnam.
Behnam announced his departure earlier this month, after...
ICE Bonds and MarketAxess partner for enhanced liquidity
ICE Bonds and MarketAxess are set to connect their liquidity networks in an effort to improve efficiency and liquidity access in municipal and corporate...
More EM platform consolidation amid liquidity challenges
Emerging markets have offered a strong opportunity for yield in recent years, albeit with greater credit risk and FX volatility, however getting access to markets...
Pluta leaves Tradeweb; Clack joins as CAO
Multi-asset market operator Tradeweb has announced that Tom Pluta will leave the firm after just two years as president, effective 30 September 2024. He...
Not average: Trade sizes in 2024
Looking at the average trade sizes for high yield and investment grade bonds, across Europe and the US in 2024, we can see considerable...
US credit issuance hit record highs in September
US credit issuance was at its highest level since May 2020 at the start of September, pushing average daily notional volumes up 4% year-on-year...
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...
All I want for Christmas, is trading analytics
Traders would do well to run close analysis over their European trading activity this month, as data from MarketAxess Trax, which tracks trading across...
FILS USA 2022: How material will desktop Interoperability be for traders?
The rollout of FDC3 as a standard to support desktop interoperability between different applications has generated considerable interest in the trading community.
Dwayne Middleton, global...
Muni market booms, e-trading crawls
Despite rising trading activity in the US municipal bond market, electronic trading remains a small component of the market, up just 0.6 percentage points...
EWIFA Crystal Ladder Winner: Amber Wright
European Women in Finance, Crystal Ladder winner Amber Wright, is Global Head of Fixed Income & E-Trading at RJ O’Brien and discusses maths, efficiency...
