Bloomberg, MarketAxess and Tradeweb Markets team up to tackle European consolidated tape
Bloomberg, MarketAxess and Tradeweb Markets today jointly issued the following statement: “We are pleased to announce an initiative to jointly explore the delivery of a ...
FILS USA 2022: Beyond RFQ?
Fixed income trading is well beyond the request for quote (RFQ)-only era, i.e. when the only way for a trader to find the other side of a transaction was by canvassing ...
FILS USA 2022: Focus on liquidity
As fixed income market participants eye the threat of a further back-up in yields, liquidity sourcing is being reassessed. While technology has greatly advanced the ...
FILS USA 2022: Fixed income turbulence to continue says AllianceBernstein CEO
The turbulence in fixed income markets over the past six months likely will continue through the second half of 2022, according to Seth Bernstein, President and CEO of ...
FILS USA 2022: Credit sees bid-ask spreads widen as volumes seesaw
Every trader attending FILS will be keeping an eye on the markets, as bid-ask spreads continue to tick upwards and volumes remain choppy. Looking at corporate bond ...
FILS USA 2022: Following a difficult start to the year...
The Fixed Income Leaders’ Summit (FILS) USA will this year begin after a period of difficult liquidity in bond markets. MarketAxess data showed trading volumes halve in ...
The Loan Lowdown: Volatility’s impact on Leveraged Loans
Howard Cohen, Head of Leveraged Loans at MarketAxess. Since early April, the leveraged loan market has trended in one direction. Risk assets have continued to sell off ...
What bouncing US credit volumes tell us in June
Looking at corporate bond trading volumes over the past two weeks, data from MarketAxess appeared to show a recovery since levels plummeted in May 2022. While high yield ...
The liquidity bears’ picnic
If you are on the desk, there is often an inverse relationship between the tension you experience and the volume of people relaxing on holiday. For example, European ...
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 index ...
Credit Indices - Closing the Fixed Income Evolutionary Gap
Index Investing and ETFs: An Evolutionary Accelerant Fixed income markets are evolving at pace, with smarter electronic trading protocols, more sophisticated, automated ...
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 show that selling ...
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 skewing the average ...
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 fire ...
