High demand for effective trading protocols
Buy-side traders, whether heavily reliant on voice trading or moving to a more electronic execution model, say they are keen to find effective protocols that...
In volatile European bond markets, data remains king
In times of rapid change and great uncertainty, market participants turn to data. But how can they ensure they have access to the information...
R3’s Corda powers first digital bond issuance on Euroclear’s digital FMI
R3’s enterprise distributed ledger technology (DLT) platform Corda has supported the first live issuance of a digital bond with Euroclear’s International Central Securities Depository...
June sees European bond volume bounce back
European volumes in sovereign bonds traded in the secondary market continued to bounce back to its near 18-month peak, according to MarketAxess data, with...
Federal Reserve group issues credit risk warning over US Treasuries trading
By Pia Hecher.
The Federal Reserve’s Treasury Market Practices Group (TMPG), which discusses issues in the US government bond market, has said that firms are...
FCA fines three broker firms £4.7 million market abuse failures
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined interdealer brokers BGC Brokers, GFI Brokers and GFI Securities £4,775,200 for failing to ensure they had appropriate...
Origination: Mars issues US$26 billion to acquire Kellanova
Mars Inc has issued US$26 billion in senior notes in a private transaction to fund its acquisition of snacking company Kellanova, formerly Kellogg’s.
The offering...
ICE Data Services: Bond defaults double in Q2
ICE Data Services has seen the level of defaults for bonds double in Q2 2019 to US$7.183 billion, up from US$2.616 billion in Q1...
Tradeweb launches iNAV calculation service with BlackRock onboard
Multi-asset marketplace operator, Tradeweb, has launched a market data service to calculate real-time Indicative Net Asset Values (iNAVs) for exchange-traded funds (ETFs). BlackRock became...
MeTheMoneyShow – Episode Nine
Dan Barnes and Terry Flanagan discuss buy-side perspectives in the latest issue of Global Trading: trading from home, broker relationships, and 'future-proofing' the trading...
Let’s be open….
Herb Werth, Managing Director, IHS Markit
As capital markets innovators, one area where we’ve spent considerable time recently has been new issuance. At first glance,...
Tradeweb reports US$18.5 trillion traded in September
Market operator Tradeweb has reported a total trading volume for September of US$18.5 trillion, with an average daily volume (ADV) for the month of...
