Analyzing chair Gensler’s comments on TRACE reporting
By Julien Alexandre & Grant Lowensohn Highlights
ICE best execution service doubles coverage
Intercontinental Exchange, Inc., a leading global provider of data, technology and market infrastructure, announced enhancements to its Best Execution service, which ...
New flexible data offerings - Eugene Grinberg
Eugene Grinberg, Solve Advisors Co-Founder and CEO. Eugene Grinberg, Solve Advisors Co-Founder and CEO, tells The DESK how the firm’s acquisition of Advantage Data and ...
TRACE recalibration exposes double counting
An adjustment to bond trade reporting to TRACE, the US post-trade reporting tape for fixed income, has cut the volume of trades arranged via alternative trading systems ...
Juggling the growth in CUSIPs
If the population of a country increased by 50% since 2014, you would think a housing crisis was likely.
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 ...
Regulation & Market Structure: How the SEC and the Fed will change US bond markets in 2021
Transparency and structure is coming to the US Treasury and credit markets. The role of the Fed is changing and consequently the role of other agencies is changing to ...
MarketAxess: In focus: Systematic fixed income trading strategies
Max Callaghan, MarketAxess. As a growing number of banks, hedge funds and asset managers begin deploying more systematic and quantitative strategies across fixed income ...
Glimpse Markets launches data-sharing for buy-side trading desks
Paul O'Brien, CEO, Glimpse Markets
Credit : Information overload : Dan Barnes
Dealer axes: Can’t see the wood for the trees A proliferation of axes and inventories are making dealer data hard to consume by trading desks. Dan Barnes reports. The ...
The utopia of the consolidated fixed income tape
Lynn Strongin Dodds explains why Europe cannot look to TRACE as a role model. Developing a consolidated tape for fixed income in Europe was never going to be easy but ...
Buy side reports price movement risk in Treasury trading
Automated trading and derivatives are changing the way US Treasuries are traded, exposing the buy side to high-frequency trading strategies. Chris Hall reports. If big ...
SEC committee signals direction for US credit rules
New fixed income committee sees pushback on structural approach to resolving credit market challenges. David Wigan reports. As European fixed income market participants ...
Platforms: What the winners are doing right
A few platforms have consistently gained buy-side confidence over the last five years, through smart assistance and simplification of trading workflow. The three ‘O’s of ...