Connecting the primary and secondary credit workflows
With issuance at near record highs in the first week of the year, credit market traders are keen to make more effective use of...
Corporate bond trade sizes climb in Europe
Total notional traded in European corporate bonds reached €5,397 billion in 2024, according to ICMA’s latest Secondary Market Data Report, an 11.8% increase on...
TransFICC launches eTrading service for interest rate swaps
TransFICC, the specialist provider of low-latency connectivity and workflow services for fixed income and derivatives markets, has launched a new eTrading service, which combines...
Charles River and DirectBooks collaborate on primary bond issuance
Charles River Development, a State Street Company, is collaborating with DirectBooks to support investment firms to manage primary issuance workflows in the Charles River...
Why Europe’s electronic credit trading is accelerating
The level of electronic trading in European corporate bond markets has overtaken the US, according to analysis from firms including Propellant and Coalition Greenwich....
Can TCA work for voice/chat credit trades?
Transaction cost analysis (TCA) – or execution quality analytics (EQA) – is a much sought after, but often objectively challenged, service in corporate bond...
Analysis: E-trading platforms see gains and losses in corporate bond market battle
Morgan Stanley analysis of the monthly reports from market operators Tradeweb and MarketAxess, has shown wins and losses in market share for both platforms.
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The DESK Research: The state of liquidity for US mid-market asset management firms
In 2022, despite robust secondary trading volumes, many buy-side firms are citing worsening liquidity conditions and dealers have seen falling trading revenues moving into...
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BondCliQ’s new portfolio trade reporting changes understanding of volumes and counterparties
Market data solutions provider, BondCliQ, will be launching a dynamic weekly report which aggregates and analyses data on US portfolio trading (PT) from TRACE,...
Crunch on liquidity costs
As bid-ask spreads begin to widen on both sides of the Atlantic, buy-side credit traders need to reassess how to best manage the crunch...
