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.
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Chappell lands new trading role for 2020
Brett Chappell, the former head of fixed income trading at Nordea Investment Management, is joining Mariana UFP, a global financial services business in London...
Chart of the week: ECB rates rise expectations
Expectations on the European Central Bank’s appetite to increase its interest rate will have a direct and negative impact on European bond trading which...
FILS 2022: How ‘Giltmageddon’ could hit LDI specialists and drive new regulation
Traders at the Fixed Income Leaders Summits (FILS) largely reported that bond markets were quiet this week, with high yield and emerging bond markets...
Research Profile: DirectBooks
The electronification of primary bond markets is a priority for buy-side firms this year, and DirectBooks, originally formed by a consortium of nine global...
Details on MiFIR deferral regime still needed
A draft report published by Danuta Hübner, rapporteur for the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs at the European Parliament, has detailed changes to...
Liquidnet expands continental Europe coverage
Block trading specialist Liquidnet, part of the TP ICAP Group, has expanded its continental European coverage by deploying specialists in equities and fixed income...
FILS 2022: FlexTrade, Glimpse herald “transformative” EMS data integration
Bond market data sharing platform Glimpse Markets has integrated with FlexTrade Systems’ fixed income execution management system (EMS), the two companies have announced.
FlexTrade said...
LedgerEdge selects Eventus for DLT-based corporate bond platform
LedgerEdge, the corporate bond trading platform being developed on distributed ledger technology (DLT), has selected Validus, a real-time trade surveillance platform built by Eventus...
Dark trading limits to apply from March after reporting failures
*Update* The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) will only apply the double volume cap (DVC) mechanism for trading European equities from March 2018,...
Daniel Collins swaps gold for rates at Aurel BGC
Daniel Collins has joined Aurel BGC to head up its futures and options (F&O) rates team in Dubai, a month after winning a gold...
Trading hacks and force multipliers for the smaller trading team
Faced with rising trading volumes and falling returns, buy-side bond desks are frequently either shrinking or at best struggling to match resource with requirements.
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