Review of 2023 Trading: Trade sizes falling – in parts…
Looking back at this year’s trading activity, through analysis of MarketAxess Trax data and TRACE for US markets, we can see clear patterns emerging...
CUSIP requests indicate municipal borrowing to rise, corporate to fall
CUSIP Global Services (CGS) has found a significant surge in request volume for new municipal bond identifiers, and a significant decline in request for...
Trading: Regulatory overreach onto the trading desk
Complaints about regulators expanding rules for equity markets into fixed income are rising on both sides of the Atlantic.
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)...
Outsourced trading consolidates further with State Street’s new acquisition
State Street Corporation has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire CF Global Trading, a global firm specialising in outsourced trading on an agency...
Exclusive: New xBK head, Dragan Skoko, discusses BNY Mellon’s new outsourced trading
BNY Mellon has launched a new outsourced trading offering for buy-side institutions globally, including asset managers and asset owners.
The offering by BNY Mellon...
Six New Trends in Managing Fixed Income Accounts
By Blake Lynch, Head of Sales at IMTC.
Predicting the bond market’s next move is difficult at best—will the yield curve steepen or flatten? Will...
GSAM outsources global trade execution to BNY Mellon
Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM) has selected BNY Mellon’s buy-side trading services for global trade execution.
BNY Mellon now provides global trade execution services to...
Jenny Bloomfield swaps Schroders for Kuwait Investment Office
Kuwait Investment Office has appointed Jenny Bloomfield as a senior Treasury dealer. She is based in London.
Bloomfield has 20 years of industry experience and...
LSEG selling MTS and Borsa Italiana for €4.325 billion to Euronext
London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) has sold Borsa Italiana to Euronext for €4.325 billion, including bond trading marketplace MTS, which was a condition of...
Algomi: The two-pronged attack plan
Algomi has an idea almost universally agree to be good, yet it has struggled to get it adopted. It aggregates inventory data pre-trade, in...
Beyond Liquidity: Rebundling Research Will Not Increase Demand for UK SMEs
With the implementation of MiFID II in 2018 came the unbundling of payments for investment research from trading commissions. The perceived benefit of unbundling...
TMPG: Better US Treasuries data needed for effective policy
The New York Federal Reserve’s Treasury Market Practices Group (TMPG) has published a white paper on ‘Data Availability and Transparency in the US Treasury...
