Will the EC ban electronic bilateral bond trading?
The broadening definition of ‘multilateral’ is at risk of capturing all trading if traders do not speak out. The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) is to ...
FILS 2021: Buy-side needs to make more noise for the right data
Data providers and regulators concur that the buy-side needs to communicate more clearly with politicians and suppliers if they are to get baseline bond data, and more ...
Bond-trading broker-dealer charged for allegedly bankrupting firm
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged Keith Wakefield, a former managing director and head of fixed income trading at IFS Securities, an Atlanta-based ...
Chinese govies step closer to collateral acceptability
Acceptance of Chinese government bonds as collateral will hinge upon rule changes around defaults. Lynn Strongin Dodds reports.
EC to review mandatory buy-in rules under CSDR
Pete Tomlinson, director of post trade, AFME.
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 ...
Bloomberg: Banks face FRTB data and modelling hurdles
Eugene Stern, head of market risk product at Bloomberg.
Natwest Markets trading desk automating fixed income trading workflow with ipushpull
Matthew Cheung, CEO, ipushpull.
SEC approves primary market database for US credit
Commissioner Elad Roisman.
EC suspends best execution reporting which is “not read at all”
Valdis Dombrovskis, Executive Vice President, European Commission
Are European exchanges allowed to rival size of US markets?
Margrethe Vestager, Commissioner, EC
CSDR settlement regime 'out' as UK sets new path
Rishi Sunak, UK’s Chancellor of the Exchequer
Odd-lot bond case alleges pressure on Bloomberg and collusion
In the US Southern District Court of New York, a class-action lawsuit has been brought against a group of banks, alleging that since 1 August 2006, they have “agreed to ...
Europe’s liquidity rules are holding up… for now
New guidance on fund liquidity has followed redemption concerns in European equity and bond funds, writes Lynn Strongin-Dodds. The risk that funds are unable to meet ...
Reviews of MiFID II transparency raise concerns
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) launched consultations on 3 February 2020 for the regime for non-equity instrument systematic internalisers (SIs), ...
