Lack of detail sinks odd-lot bond case against major banks
The United States District Court, Southern District of New York, has dismissed a court case brought against Bank of America, Barclays, Citigroup, Credit...
FILS 2022: How ‘Giltmageddon’ could hit LDI specialists and drive new regulation
Traders at the Fixed Income Leaders Summits (FILS) largely reported that bond markets were quiet this week, with high yield and emerging bond markets...
RBC joins ICE Clear Credit as clearing member
The Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) has joined Intercontinental Exchange’s (ICE) credit default swaps clearinghouse, ICE Clear Credit, as a clearing member.
Following its membership,...
The pretenders, and kingmakers, to the bond throne
Dealers are backing several new trading platforms who are fighting major incumbents for market share.
In the bond market, the trading platform landscape has been...
Katana expands instrument universe by 30,000 bonds
With a reported accuracy of 91%, Katana uses machine learning algorithms and the latest big data technologies to analyse live and up to ten...
MarketAxess pushes muni e-trading with pricing engine expansion
Responding to growing interest in muni market e-trading, MarketAxess’s AI-powered electronic pricing engine CP+ is now available for municipal bonds.
Julien Alexandre, global head of...
SGX anticipates Japanese growth with STIR futures
Singapore Exchange (SGX Group) plans to introduce short-term interest rate futures related to the Tokyo Overnight Average Rate (TONA) and the Singapore Overnight Rate...
TMPG: Better US Treasuries data needed for effective policy
The New York Federal Reserve’s Treasury Market Practices Group (TMPG) has published a white paper on ‘Data Availability and Transparency in the US Treasury...
Shumpert joins MarketAxess rates business
Nicole Shumpert has been named US rates product manager for dealer to client (D2C) by bond market operator MarketAxess.
Shumpert is a highly experienced operator...
Rates : Munis : Dan Barnes
Return of muni futures shows the market’s got moxie.
The municipal bond market is addressing its problems head on and in doing so, defying...
Coalition: Banks’ FICC trading victory in 2020 through remote working and market volatility
Remote working did not hold back sell-side firms in 2020 according to data from analyst firm Coalition. Full year investment banking revenues increased by...
Substantially higher US investment grade stress going into 2023
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Corporate Bond Market Distress Index (CMDI) is closing 2022 with investment grade US bond markets twice as distressed as...
