European bond traders struggle with block trades and counterparties
Analysis of the European and US corporate bond markets by Coalition Greenwich has found that block trades and counterparties are a far greater concern for buy-side ...
Connecting the Dots of Innovation – A Breakthrough in All-To-All Trading
By Iseult E.A. Conlin, CFA Managing Director, U.S. Cash Credit, Tradeweb. In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, the majority of the US fixed income marketplaces took ...
Tradeweb reports ADV in June up 35% year-on-year
Tradeweb has reported that its total trading volume for June 2021 reached US$23.1 trillion. Average daily volume (ADV) for the month was US$1.05 trillion, an increase of ...
ISIN at issuance launched for Eurobonds by Origin
Raja Palaniappan, CEO and co-founder of Origin.
Sean George joins Millennium Capital Partners
Sean George, Millennium Capital Partners
Tangible returns from bond trade automation
Adoption of automated trading continues apace across several bond markets and within different grades of instrument. Gareth Coltman, global head of automation at ...
Sub-2bps bid-ask spreads in US IG are below pre-crisis levels
The US investment grade (IG) credit market is seeing very tight bid-ask spreads in 2021, according to the Composite Plus (CP+) data supplied by MarketAxess. It has found ...
New EM issues make relationships matter
Buy-side emerging markets (EM) traders will be bonding well with their banks and brokers this year to make sure they are getting a slice of new issues. According to data ...
Scotiabank, Rabo Securities and Huntington Capital Markets join DirectBooks
DirectBooks, the capital markets consortium founded to optimise the bond issuance process has signed up Scotiabank, Rabo Securities and Huntington Capital Markets to ...
Aegon AM wins short-dated investment grade bond mandates
Adrian Hull, head of fixed income, Aegon AM.
Barclays now streaming prices into MarketAxess Live Markets
Richard Schiffman, head of Open Trading, MarketAxess.
Dealers grow FICC revenues 15% in first quarter of 2021
Sell-side fixed income, currency and commodities (FICC) revenues saw growth of 15% in the first quarter of 2021, according to new research by analyst firm Coalition ...
How the ICMA got firm on bond pricing
Buy-side traders have long decried the lack of executable price in bond markets. For the best part of a decade the electrification of these markets has come with ...
Trumid collaborating with Jefferies in EM credit trading
Ronnie Mateo, Trumid founder and CEO.
ESMA consultation on RTS 2 marks accelerated process
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has launched a consultation on the development of draft regulatory technical standards to specify the pre-trade ...
