Do Europe’s credit trading costs invert the pattern for US debt trades?
An analysis of average bid-ask spreads in corporate bond markets across the European and US markets suggests that median bid ask spreads responses are...
AFM: No technical barriers for the implementation of a consolidated tape for fixed income
The Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM) sees no technical barriers for the implementation of a consolidated tape (CT) for fixed income. In...
A tale of two tapes: Consolidating the consolidators
Market participants will be hit with simultaneous, major technical demands in late 2025 and early 2026 as both the EU and UK update transparency...
Greenwich predicts schism in European and US bond markets
By Vineet Naik.
European bond market structure is likely to diverge further from the US, as a result of the different investment models which are...
Repo markets are back in focus for the Fed’s Treasury Market Practice Group
The US Federal Reserve’s Treasury Market Practice Group (TMPG) has focused this month on discussing the status of repurchase agreement (repo) clearing and settlement...
MiFIR: Controversy around consolidated tape proposal for revenue sharing with venues
The Czechia presidency of the Council of the European Union proposed amending the Markets in Financial Instrument Regulation (MiFIR) on 16 December 2022, with...
MiFID II/MiFIR text approval likely to take “several weeks”
A source close to the trilogue discussions around the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive and Regulation (MiFID II / MiFIR) has said that talks...
RBC names Guy Chalkley as managing director of UK flow rates sales
RBC has named Guy Chalkley as managing director, UK, flow rates sales.
Chalkley, based in London, reports to Kofi Oteng, European head of flow rates...
Bloomberg warns on SEC extending exchange rules into bond market communication protocols
In a letter penned by Bloomberg’s Gregory Babyak, global head of regulatory Affairs and Gary Stone regulatory analyst and market structure strategist, the market...
PGIM: Research indicates liquidity event is tail risk with greatest impact
In a survey of 400 senior investment decision-makers at institutional investors in Australia, China, Germany, Japan, the UK and the US with a combined...
IDX: Bumper election year could be less disruptive than feared
Political instability feels more of a threat than ever, but what impact is it really having on markets? Exchanges weighed in at this year’s...
Stefano Dallavalle and Diederik Van Suchtelen join LedgerEdge
LedgerEdge, the distributed ledger platform for corporate bond trading, has appointed Stefano Dallavalle to develop LedgerEdge’s platform as product director. He joins LedgerEdge with...
