Front-to-back OMS providers change strategy
Dan Barnes investigates why big OMS providers are partnering with smaller players.
In 2018, following the acquisition of Charles River Development by State Street, it seemed...
MarketAxess volumes up 16.4%; EM and all-to-all lead growth
By Pia Hecher.
Venue operator and data provider MarketAxess has announced its second quarter results with significant upward trends in overall trading volume, including Open...
Citi boosts EGB rates trading team across US and Europe
Citi has made a number of appointments to its rates trading team, with Courtenay Watson joining the company as a managing director in London.
Watson...
Issuance in double figure growth everywhere (ex-Japan!)
The debt markets have been booming globally in the first half of 2024, according to Dealogic data, with Middle East and Africa seeing issuance...
European Market Choice Awards: Bridging the gap
Reaching across buy- and sell-side has won popular support for TS Imagine in connecting front offices.
TS Imagine has won the votes of traders on...
FILS 2021: Natural attrition should drive new ways to trade
Old ways of working must be ‘allowed to die’ to make way for blockchain and distributed ledger technology (DLT), delegates at day two of...
What bond traders need to know about today’s TP ICAP / Liquidnet deal
Broker dealer TP ICAP has agreed to buy block-trading market operator Liquidnet, with Nicolas Breteau, CEO of TP ICAP, putting the growth of Liquidnet’s...
Jefferies picks Propellant for FI data analytics
Jefferies has selected Propellant Digital to provide data solutions for fixed income markets.
Propellant combines public and proprietary trading data to financial institutions, aiming to...
Technology: Educating data
Can better pre-trade data really unlock liquidity in frozen fixed income markets?
If buy and sell-side bond traders are to see real benefits from the...
MarketAxess reports record revenue in 2021
Bond market operator MarketAxess saw total revenues for 2021 increase 1.4% to a record US$699 million, compared to US$689.1 million for 2020. Operating income...
Ted Husveth: Measuring Execution Quality for Portfolio Trading
In our last blog post, we detailed how we estimate market-wide portfolio trading volumes, and how those volumes have grown as a proportion of...
UK to allow shorting of government debt and sovereign CDS
The UK Government has said it will remove requirements currently placed on investors when taking out short positions in sovereign debt or sovereign credit...
