MiFID II are you ready for 2018?
With the introduction of MiFID II and MiFIR on 3 January 2018, the European financial markets will face the biggest regulatory change they have...
Liquidnet launches primary bond market offering as buy side demands innovation
Block-trading specialist Liquidnet is launching into the primary market technology space. Its new electronic solution, Liquidnet Debt Capital Markets (DCM), is focused on new...
What is best execution and how can firms achieve it?
Gareth Coltman, Head of European Product Management, MarketAxess Europe offers his insights.
There is no doubt that MiFID II will have a profound and lasting...
Charles Taylor Investment Management selects Bloomberg OMS
Charles Taylor Investment Management (CTIM), the fund management business of Charles Taylor, has adopted Bloomberg’s Asset & Investment Manager (AIM) and PORT Enterprise systems....
Cowen Outsourced Trading picks TORA OEMS
Cowen Outsourced Trading has selected TORA’s Order and Execution Management System (OEMS) for fixed income trading across USA, Europe and Asia.
Cowen selected TORA’s software-as-a-service...
FCA publishes new transparency requirements
The FCA has published its policy statement on the UK post-trade transparency regime for bonds and derivatives, effective 1 December 2025. Through the changes,...
US credit sees elevated bid-ask spreads
Bid-ask spread remain elevated in US markets across investment grade and high yield, relative to January and February, according to MarketAxess Trax data, which...
Securities financing conditions tightened somewhat while market making activity gained, ECB says
The Desk has analyzed the December 2024 survey on credit terms and conditions in euro-denominated securities financing and OTC derivatives markets (SESFOD), which provides...
Redhedge Asset Management opens credit total return fund to outside investors
Redhedge Asset Management, a Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) regulated investment manager, has opened its Synergy Total Return Fund to outside investors.
The Fund was launched to provide institutional clients...
Etrading Software and Artis Holdings’ electronic loans platform is live
Capital markets system provider Etrading Software, and electronic loans technology specialist Artis Holdings, have completed the opening bids wanted in competition (BWIC) process via...
FILS USA: How all-to-all trading can break through the 17% barrier
Robert Fink, head of buy-side relationships at analyst firm Coalition Greenwich, opened a session at the Fixed Income Leaders Summit in Boston, by noting...
ESMA lacks data to test bond market concerns
By Pia Hecher.
Regulators have acknowledged that bond market data is so sparse, even post-MiFID II, that they are unable to test execution quality concerns....
