Tag: MarketAxess
White-paper summary: Filling the liquidity gap in bond index construction
Industry viewpoint: State Street Global Advisors SPDR® and MarketAxess
The success of ETFs in supporting bond market liquidity has been marred by a gap in...
Credit Indices – Closing the Fixed Income Evolutionary Gap
Fixed income markets are evolving at pace, with smarter electronic trading protocols, more sophisticated, automated investment strategies and a greater availability of useful data.
In...
New issuance drives up secondary selling
News that high yield (HY) issuance has fallen in Europe may be of little consolation to investment grade investors, as new data from MarketAxess...
Virtu Financial forms consortium to expand RFQ-hub
Virtu Financial, the market maker, broker and financial services technology provider, has formed formation of RFQ-hub Holdings to support the growth of RFQ-hub, Virtu’s...
Is US investment grade market-making starting to fray?
In US credit, mean bid/ask spreads are skewing upwards from the median, indicating that a greater proportion of larger spreads are in some cases...
Trading for Trees: Giving back through trading green bonds
Since its inception, the MarketAxess “Trading for Trees” initiative has helped to plant over 385,000 trees across a range of biodiversity, climate stability and...
MSCI and MarketAxess collaborate on liquid fixed income indexes, portfolio construction...
MSCI and MarketAxess are entering into a strategic collaboration to create portfolio analytics solutions and co-branded fixed income indexes incorporating MarketAxess liquidity data.
MSCI plans...
European trading strained in high yield
Comparing European high yield (HY) and investment grade (IG) corporate bond data from MarketAxess, the pressure for traders and investors in high yield markets...
Case Study – BlueCove’s expansive view of fixed income markets
BlueCove’s expansive view of fixed income markets.
Recognising the need for smarter ways to assess market dynamics and connect with pools of liquidity, BlueCove has been...
MarketAxess: New trading protocols are expanding, not cannibalising, liquidity
MarketAxess has reported its second highest level of quarterly revenue and credit trading volume, as well as a record total trading volume in Q1...
