Glimpse Markets launches data-sharing for buy-side trading desks
Paul O'Brien, CEO, Glimpse Markets
MarketAxess hit 21.5% of investment grade TRACE volume in Q2
Fixed-income market and infrastructure operator, MarketAxess, has seen revenues for the second quarter of 2020 increase 47% year-on-year (YoY) to US$184.8 million, up ...
In uncertain times, corporate bond traders seek certainty of execution
Portfolio trading has emerged as a go-to mechanism to buy or sell many bonds at once. Traders want the best price - but they also want their trades to execute. The ...
CMA: ION takeover of Broadway looks likely
The UK’s Competition and Market’s Authority (CMA) has reported there are “reasonable grounds for believing that the undertakings offered by [front office technology ...
Reports indicate UBS Bond Port is on a tear
Several buy-side traders have reported they are seeing significantly increased volumes and buy-side activity on the UBS Bond Port platform in the second quarter of 2020, ...
Citadel confirms Chang to join in September
Isaac Chang, former head of trading at AQR Capital Management. Photo courtesy of WBR Equities Leaders 2019.
Morgan Stanley: Fed buying programme has benefits beyond direct purchases
Analysis of the Federal Reserve’s Secondary Market Corporate Credit Facility (SMCCF) by Morgan Stanley analysts has found that its purchases of exchange traded funds ...
Rutter launches ambitious new bond ‘ecosystem’, LedgerEdge
David Rutter, founder of LiquidityEdge & CEO of R3. Courtesy: Nickpwarren.
Lipper: Bond funds come roaring back (with Fed’s help)
Refinitiv Lipper has seen a bounce back for bond funds in Q2 2020 after they suffered losses of -4.3% and outflows of US$208.9 billion induced by COVID-19 during the ...
Tradeweb sees volume drop in June
Lee Olesky, CEO, Tradeweb
S&P Global Ratings: European credit spreads still wide
In its latest ‘Europe Credit Markets Update’, S&P Global Ratings has painted a grim picture for European borrowers, notably in the high yield space, which it labels ...
Aegon Asset Management appoints global CIO for fixed income
Russ Morrison, CIO, Aegon Asset Management
CUSIP requests indicate municipal borrowing to rise, corporate to fall
Gerard M. Faulkner, Director of CGS Operations
AxeTrading and Mosaic Smart Data collaborate on bond market analytics
AxeTrading, the fixed income trading software provider, and Mosaic Smart Data, the real-time capital markets data analytics company, are integrating the AxeTrader ...
How Fed bond buying is impacting markets
John Lonski, chief economist, Moody’s Capital Markets Research
