US president to oversee financial institution regulation amid deregulation drive
New executive orders signed by US president, Donald Trump, have given him oversight of all US financial regulation, outside of monetary policy, while also...
CSDR mandatory buy-in delay welcomed
Umberto Menconi, head of Digital Markets Structures, Market Hub, Banca IMI, Intesa Sanpaolo Group
Since the financial crisis waves of new regulation and the need...
The Agency Broker Hub: Exchange traded derivatives – key European trends
Carmine Calamello, Head of Brokerage Desk, Market Hub – Intesa Sanpaolo Group
Some argue that the origin of derivatives contracts can be traced back to...
Dom Holland joins LedgerEdge
LedgerEdge, the distributed ledger ecosystem for corporate bond trading, has appointed senior fixed income specialist Dom Holland to the role of business development for...
Tradeweb announces first fully electronic SOFR swap spread trade
Market operator Tradeweb reports it has completed the first fully electronic institutional Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR) swap spread trade. BlackRock and JP Morgan...
The Fed and BlackRock’s bond-buying criteria challenged
Detail around the Primary Market Corporate Credit Facility (PMCCF) and Secondary Market Corporate Credit Facility (SMCCF) launched by the Federal Reserve Bank of New...
AxeTrading receives €2 million investment from Illuminate Financial
AxeTrading, a provider of fixed income trading technology, has announced a strategic investment of €2 million from Illuminate Financial Management, a venture capital firm...
Schleifer: “Explosive growth” for desktop interoperability as Finsemble goes solo
Cosaic is spinning off its desktop interoperability platform, Finsemble, following the sale of its Chart IQ to S&P Global, as a new company. The...
As QE sails into history, investors look to unfamiliar shores
By Chris Hall.
The end of quantitative easing has been long signposted by central banks, but there are still sufficient sources of uncertainty to keep...
EU brings clarity to interim MiFIR data and reporting obligations
The European Commission has published a draft notice on the transitional provisions of the Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR) review.
Designed to bring clarity...
CME Group announces Q4 2022 launch of European Overnight Index Futures
Derivatives marketplace operator, CME Group, has announced it will launch European Overnight Index futures based on RepoFunds Rate (RFR) benchmarks and the Euro Short-Term...
Is issuance for the high jump?
Data from CreditSights indicates the pace of US investment grade bond issuance fell from May, only to jump back in August, at a point...
