IRD traders see room for improvement in dealer technology use
Close to a third of interest-rate derivatives (IRD) traders are content with the technology use of their dealers, according to a recent Coalition Greenwich...
Bond market venues tussle over market share amid volumes surge
Fixed income trading venues have reaped the rewards of rising trading volumes, but a highly competitive landscape is having an impact on market share.
Market...
ICE: Indexing – the next evolution
ICE offers advancements with customisation, AI and a depth of historical data
The DESK spoke to Varun Pawar, ICE Fixed Income & Data Services’ Chief...
Amit Raja takes new role at Citi
Citigroup has confirmed that Amit Raja has been appointed regional head of markets for EMEA at the investment bank.
The announcement follows Leo Arduini’s appointment...
Aquis selected for Central Bank of Colombia government bond market
Banco de la República, the Central Bank of Colombia, has selected Aquis Exchange to provide technology and support services for Sistema Electrónico de Negociación...
Month-end activity in alternative protocols
By Misha Girshfeld, Research Specialist and Grant Lowensohn, Senior Research Analyst at MarketAxess. 25 October, 2022
Highlights
We have seen an average increase of about 11%...
The Book: Alphabet tops issuer league table in May
Alphabet Inc., the parent company of Google, was the largest corporate issuer in May 2025. It issued a combined US$5 billion and a combined...
Data and diversification key to solving liquidity woes
The market is fond of complaining about the lack of liquidity in markets. But panellists at this year’s FILS Europe argued that there is...
Will Irwin named FX institutional sales director at Lloyds Bank NA
Will Irwin has joined Lloyds Bank North America as director of FX institutional sales, based out of New York City.
Irwin joins from Spanish multinational...
European credit – get it while it’s hot!
Bid ask spreads in European investment grade (IG) credit trading have fallen substantially over the past month, based on data from MarketAxess’s CP+ composite...
Tradeweb shares execution workflows through Coremont
Tradeweb has partnered with cloud-based portfolio management software and analytics platform Coremont, providing execution services through its portfolio management platform.
The partnership is in line...
CME to launch corporate bonds and MBS on BrokerTec Quote
CME Group will launch repo on corporate bonds and mortgage-backed securities (MBS) on BrokerTec Quote, the firm’s dealer-to-client (D2C) request-for-quote (RFQ) trading platform. US...
