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Trade sizes in Europe’s corporate bond markets are aligning across investment grade (IG) and high yield (HY) sectors, while the US markets are still...

Electronic trading in US credit showed little movement between 2024 and 2025, hovering just below 50% of investment grade (IG) volumes and remaining at...

European fixed income fund flows remain structurally different from the US, materially affecting trading flows during the day. In 2025, 84% of Europe’s US$422.7bn net inflows went to active open-ended funds. US flows...

The rigid grip on safer assets that investors have taken over the past two weeks has clearly shown in trading costs as bid-ask spreads...

Riad Chowdhury has been promoted to head of EMEA and APAC sales at MarketAxess. Based in Singapore, he will retain his existing responsibilities as head...

The dramatic escalation of Venezuela’s political crisis — culminating in the US military operation that removed Nicolás Maduro from power — has triggered a...

S&P Global has reported that global sukuk issuance hit US$264.8 billion in 2025, up from $234.9 billion in 2024, driven by solid economic growth...

Credit markets have seen bid-ask spreads, a proxy for trading costs for the buy-side, tighten further in the first two weeks of 2026, relative...

MarketAxess has reported more than US$1 trillion in emerging markets (EM) trading volumes year-to-date. Average daily volumes reached approximately US$5 billion between January and November,...

When comparing liquidity across markets in 2025, buy-side bond traders may consider European investment grade markets to have an optimal set of characteristics. However,...