IHS Markit's thinkFolio and Wave Labs partner
IHS Markit’s thinkFolio investment platform is partnering with Wave Labs, a firm that has created fixed income tools to deliver a functional window for traders.
Chart of the week: When trading into the US, when should I trade?
Timing is everything in the markets, but not every market shares the same timing. It is common for trading desks to employ a trader to work in overseas markets by ...
Chart of the week: Attack of the killer BBBs
The lowest tier of investment grade bonds show an interesting opportunity in the new issue space, as observed by analyst firm CreditSights. Relative value trades can be ...
First quarter sees Tradeweb break US$1 trillion ADV
Market operator Tradeweb saw a US$1.06 trillion record average daily volume (ADV) for the first quarter of 2021, an increase of 18% compared to prior year period with ...
Cowen Outsourced Trading picks TORA OEMS
Joram Siegel, head of Fixed Income Outsourced Trading, Cowen.
LedgerEdge selects Exactpro to support distributed ledger enabled corporate bond trading
Alyona Bulda, head of the Global Exchanges Division at Exactpro.
EC fines Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Crédit Agricole, and Credit Suisse for bond cartel
Margrethe Vestager, Executive vice-president, European Commission.
TradingScreen and Imagine Software to merge; Flatley named CEO of new entity
Private equity firm Francisco Partners, which The DESK revealed has acquired TradingScreen, a provider of trading execution and order management software, is to merge ...
Traders note FCA ‘rebundling’ exposes misunderstanding of bond market
The UK market regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has released a consultation paper (CP) on existing MiFID II rules, which includes a proposed scrapping of ...
Trumid picks EM head and launches EM Attributed Trading
Trumid, has hired Ben Sobel, head of emerging markets, Trumid.
Post-pandemic corporate bond surge continues among retailers
Corporate debt issuance is expected to ramp up this week as more companies emerge from earnings blackout periods, according to research by analytics provider Overbond. ...
EXCLUSIVE: TradingScreen bought by Francisco Partners
Pierre Schroeder, Chairman & CEO, TradingScreen.
MarketAxess rides all-to-all and volume growth to record revenues in Q1
Bond market operator MarketAxess has reported Q1 2021 revenues of US$195.5 million, up 16% on the previous year and a company record. While Q1 volume outstripped the ...
CME to launch rates futures based on Mexico’s F-TIIE
Derivative and rates market operator, CME Group, is to introduce interest rate futures based on the Central Bank of Mexico's Overnight TIIE funding rate (F-TIIE). ...
AllianceBernstein executes credit block trade with four buyers on LTX
“This is a major milestone for the fixed income market,” Jim Toffey, CEO of LTX.
