MARKET NEWS
What Mexico’s vol risk means for trading LatAm bonds
In Latin American (LatAm) markets, economic volatility may transfer into market volatility – most notably in Mexico.
In order to manage risk and seize opportunities...
Liontrust loses McLoughlin
Head of trading Matthew McLoughlin has resigned from Liontrust Asset Management.
McLoughlin has been a partner and head of trading at the active investment management...
MarketAxess holds US credit trading high ground in April volatility
A burst of spread widening and credit ETF related trading pushed US electronic credit trading to another record in April.
TRACE volumes for investment grade...
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Declaration of dependence
US president to oversee financial institution regulation amid deregulation drive.
Executive orders signed by US president, Donald Trump, have given him oversight of all US...
The pretenders, and kingmakers, to the bond throne
Dealers are backing several new trading platforms who are fighting major incumbents for market share.
In the bond market, the trading platform landscape has been...
Electric dreams in global rates markets
Electronic trading between dealers and buy-side institutions is taking different paths in government bond markets, globally. Lucy Carter investigates.
“We have seen growth in the electronification of...
Trading Intentions Survey 2025
The battle for pre-trade analytics
The 2025 Trading Intentions Survey canvassed 40 buy-side trading desks across asset managers headquartered in Europe (52%) and the US...
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Trading Intentions Survey 2025
The battle for pre-trade analytics
The 2025 Trading Intentions Survey canvassed 40 buy-side trading desks across asset managers headquartered in Europe (52%) and the US...
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FROM THE ARCHIVES
Man Group names Sam Ratcliff head of order management and analytics
Man Group’s Sam Ratcliff has been named head of order management and analytics – markets platform technology.
Formerly heading up the firm’s execution technology division,...
Impact of the MiFID II SI assessment delay
Geoffroy Vander Linden, Head of Transparency Solutions, Trax.
On 4 November 2016, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) published a Q&A document outlining their...
The pros and cons of record issuance
Bond markets typically see increased liquidity around a bond shortly after it is issued. However, this does not mean that markets are automatically more...
FILS 2018: Advent of AI sees traders reskill, retool
By Chris Hall.
Buy-side traders risk redundancy and irrelevance if they do not adapt to the opportunities for automation of fixed-income execution provided by new...
Bond platforms see leap in June volumes year-on-year
Trading platforms recorded double digit growth in average daily volumes (ADV) in June 2024. Tradeweb saw its June 2024 fully electronic US credit ADV...
9Fin takes the win in Dragon’s Den
Financial technology (fintech) firm 9Fin won the ‘Dragon’s Den’ event at FILS 2019, beating tough competition from Auquan and Scorable.
Following a series of pitches...
MiFID II: New dealer economics
Explicit commission payments and a tabloid-style of attention-grabbing research are on the cards under MiFID II, as it reinvents investment economics in fixed income.
No-one...
Tradeweb implements block trading in Chinese bonds on Bond Connect
By Pia Hecher.
Bond trading operator platform Tradeweb Markets has launched block trading functionality in Chinese yuan (CNY) bonds on Bond Connect, the mutual market...
Bloomberg launches market-driven daily credit risk indicator
Bloomberg is offering its Market-Implied Probability of Default (MIPD) product, a market-driven creditworthiness indicator, to both Enterprise Data and Bloomberg Terminal clients globally. MIPD...
Tradeweb connects repo and IRS markets in electronic workflow
Multi-asset market operator, Tradeweb has launched features that bridge the firm’s repurchase agreements (repo) and interest rate swap (IRS) product offerings to support clients’...
Landazabal to lead trading at GAM
Juan Landazabal is to join Swiss asset manager, Global Asset Management (GAM), as global head of trading, according to an email seen by The...
Liquidnet: Connectivity is key for efficient trading
By Vineet Naik.
Liquidnet’s head of fixed income, Constantinos Antoniades, has emphasised the importance for connectivity between front office systems and trading venues as he...
