Credit Spotlight

Equity venues are dating websites; credit venues are bars

Equity venues are dating apps – you have to be a member to use the central limit order book (CLOB), and it will match...

Review: Mixed bond trading revenues in choppy first quarter

Banks have seen mixed results from bond trading in the first quarter of 2023, across credit and rates, while electronic trading platforms have seen...

U.S. Credit Trading Q&A: Jim Kwiatkowski, LTX

Jim Kwiatkowski was named CEO of LTX, Broadridge Financial Solutions’ artificial intelligence (AI)-driven digital trading business, in November 2022. Markets Media caught up with Jim to learn more...

ING issues first commercial paper trade via Onbrane

ING Bank has completed its first Euro Commercial Paper (CP) transaction, issued by Dutch company Royal Friesland Campina, on the Onbrane platform for primary...

The credit trading processes you really should have automated by now…

Automation has historically been highly challenging in corporate bond markets for several reasons, but traders say some parts of the workflow ‘ought’ to be...

Exclusive: Quinn and Sobel discuss Trumid’s new portfolio trading protocol

Trumid, the fixed income electronic trading platform, has launched a portfolio trading protocol. Designed to simplify and extend electronic portfolio trading for institutional clients...

Decision trees (and how to climb them)

Making the working lives of credit traders better is The DESK’s mission. Traders are time poor, and systematising trading allows them to free up...

How big can systematic trading get in credit?

Investors can achieve significant advantages though systematic trading, such as reduction of trader/investor bias, and responsiveness to signals. However, there are limits to the...

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...