China Bond Connect launches real-time DvP and block trading
By Pia Hecher.
Mutual market access scheme Bond Connect, the platform linking investors from Mainland China and overseas, implemented real-time delivery-versus-payment (RDvP) and introduced a...
Broadridge’s LTX completes integration with Charles River Development
LTX, Broadridge Financial Solutions’ artificial intelligence (AI)-driven digital trading platform, has completed a successful integration with the Charles River Investment Management Solution (Charles River...
EU-UK financial services regulatory framework to be agreed by March 2021
The draft Trade and Cooperation Agreement between the United Kingdom (UK) and European Union (EU), which has been supported by the Europe Union and...
The breakdown: How asset managers are tackling fixed income unbundling
By Flora McFarlane & Dan Barnes.
With the revised Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) set to arrive in just under five months, buy-side...
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MarketAxess: In focus: Systematic fixed income trading strategies
As a growing number of banks, hedge funds and asset managers begin deploying more systematic and quantitative strategies across fixed income trading, Max Callaghan,...
CME Group set to clear US cash Treasuries
A CME Group representative has confirmed to The DESK that the company is set to enter US Treasury clearing.
The news was first reported...
Smaller proportion of US Treasuries e-traded than previously estimated
Levels of e-trading in US treasuries in dealer-to-dealer (D2D) and dealer-to-client (D2C) markets have come into sharper focus thanks to data collected by FINRA...
How the effects of war are spreading in Asia
The war in Ukraine outside of Europe is, from a capital markets perspective, driving a ‘risk-off’ attitude across issuers, buy-side and sell-side firms. As...
Trading: Best practices for the sell-side desk
Buy-side traders do not have time to waste, so attention is key to a strong relationship.
We asked buy-side desks about the best ways their...
Regulation Automated Trading – The finishing line
Lynn Strongin Dodds asks whether the CFTC can get the bill passed before the election and what its impact will be if it does.
The...
Kate Burke replaces Sullivan as Allspring CEO
Kate Burke has been appointed CEO of Allspring Global Investments, effective 1 July.
The North Carolina-based investment firm holds more than US$605 billion in assets...
Tradeweb announces first fully electronic SOFR swap spread trade
Market operator Tradeweb reports it has completed the first fully electronic institutional Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR) swap spread trade. BlackRock and JP Morgan...
















