Portfolio trading is booming in liquidity crisis
Ongoing market volatility has led to a spike in popularity of portfolio trading according to trading platforms, dealers and buy-side traders. Market operator Tradeweb...
ESMA launches consultation to clarify boundaries of trading venues under MiFID II
The European and Securities Market Authority (ESMA) has launched a consultation on what constitutes a trading venue, and what can be considered a trading...
Country focus: India’s bond markets in an election year
India has an upcoming election on 19 April, which the governing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), led by incumbent Prime Minister Narendra Modi, is widely...
Oppenheimer veteran joins Dinosaur Financial
Dinosaur Financial Group has appointed Robert Rahman as global head of credit within its newly-launched global corporate credit securities (GCCS) division.
GCCS aims to be...
Viewpoint: Lifting the pre-trade curtain
Michael Richter, an executive director at S&P Global Market Intelligence, and head of the Transaction Cost Analysis (TCA) business for EMEA explains the key...
China Bond Connect launches real-time DvP and block trading
By Pia Hecher.
Mutual market access scheme Bond Connect, the platform linking investors from Mainland China and overseas, implemented real-time delivery-versus-payment (RDvP) and introduced a...
Green bond issuance off to strong start in 2021
As a result of the stronger-than-expected green bond issuance so far in 2021, NN Investment partners has raised its projection for full-year issuance to...
IRD traders see room for improvement in dealer technology use
Close to a third of interest-rate derivatives (IRD) traders are content with the technology use of their dealers, according to a recent Coalition Greenwich...
John Orrock joins Cowen fixed income outsourced trading
Cowen has expanded its fixed income outsourced trading team with the appointment of John Orrock as managing director. He will be based in the...
Technology : AI paradigms for bond trading
Understanding types of machine learning is key to building automation in bond markets, writes Lynn Strongin Dodds.
The difficulties of applying artificial intelligence (AI) and...
IDX: Bumper election year could be less disruptive than feared
Political instability feels more of a threat than ever, but what impact is it really having on markets? Exchanges weighed in at this year’s...
Aité-Novarica: Fixed income EMSs expecting major growth this year
A new report by Colby Jenkins, strategic advisor at analyst firm Aité-Novarica, finds that fixed income execution management system (EMS) vendor projections for growth...
