FILS USA 2022: Credit sees bid-ask spreads widen as volumes seesaw
Every trader attending FILS will be keeping an eye on the markets, as bid-ask spreads continue to tick upwards and volumes remain choppy.
Looking at...
CME paper: Is US vs Euro rate differential greater than central bank rates?
A research paper by Erik Norland, senior economist of CME Group, has found that the difference between the futures and the spot price for...
H1 growth at LSEG buoyed by Tradeweb success
LSEG once again led their capital markets results with Tradeweb’s successes in H1 2024. Total revenue of £880 million, up 13.4% year-on-year (YoY), was...
Opening the black box: SOLVE’s new AI claims to predict ‘next-trade’ bond prices
SOLVE, provider of pre-trade quotes data across fixed income markets, has rolled out an artificial intelligence platform (AI) that is designed to predict the...
MarketAxess hit 21.5% of investment grade TRACE volume in Q2
Fixed-income market and infrastructure operator, MarketAxess, has seen revenues for the second quarter of 2020 increase 47% year-on-year (YoY) to US$184.8 million, up from...
Re-designing the fixed income landscape
Benjamin Bécar, Fixed Income Product Manager at smartTrade Technologies believes that growing access to data is enabling buy-side firms to transform their trading workflow...
Direct price streaming will transform credit trading
Banks are providing corporate bond pricing feeds direct to clients shaping new potential execution paths. Dan Barnes reports.
Big investment banks including Morgan Stanley, UBS...
Asset managers offering lower discount to promote new bond fund launches than equity funds
The launch of 'early-bird' share classes by asset managers is no longer uncommon in Europe according to research firm Fitz Partners, which now tracks...
BoE sets code of conduct for repo and securities lending
A new voluntary Money Markets Code setting out the standards and best practice expected from participants in the deposit, repo and securities lending markets...
ICE: Measuring and managing climate risk in debt markets
As the physical risks associated with climate rapidly shift, borrowers, lenders and investors need to better understand their exposure. Larry Lawrence, head of sustainable...
The UK’s PRA cites break from EU in review of capital rules for buy...
The Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA), the UK’s prudential authority for financial services, has begun reform of capital rules for insurers and banks, in its...
European Women in Finance : Sarah Gordon : Making an impact
Senior writer Shanny Basar spoke to Sarah Gordon, CEO of Impact Investing Institute about how impact investing can contribute to the well-being of people...