MARKET NEWS
Tokenised Treasury transactions tested ahead of DTCC go-live
Franklin Templeton has exchanged a tokenised US Treasury for tokenised cash (USDCx) with Virtu Financial in real-time as the industry prepares for DTCC’s tokenised...
Pham swaps UBS for SIX
Nancy Pham has joined SIX as head of fixed income sales. She is based in Zurich.
In May 2026, SIX reported €157.9 billion in turnover...
Standard Chartered promotes two to CEO roles
Standard Chartered has promoted Margaret Harwood-Jones to CEO for Europe and the UK, effective 1 September.
The newly-created role unifies oversight of the two regions.
Standard...
Trumid, BlackRock deepen integration
Trumid’s credit trading workflows have been further integrated into the BlackRock Aladdin order and execution management system (OEMS).
Shared clients will be able to access...
Ediphy rolls out consolidated consolidated tape
Ediphy has launched an aggregated consolidated bond tape, bringing together UK, EU and US post-trade fixed income data.
The service combines the UK bond tape,...
Yap and Chua join Citi
Anthony Yap and Maria Chua have joined Citi’s APAC debt capital market (DCM) team.
Yap will serve as head of leveraged finance for Australia and...
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Invesco: Kaizen and the art of trading
Running one of the leanest teams on the street, Ray Uy’s traders amplify their firm’s investment ideas by combining deep relationships, cutting edge technologies...
The accelerating boat to China: A faster route for traders
China offers investors a wealth of opportunity, with the caveat that markets are not fully open. Where the authorities are cautious about changes to market...
Eurex sees lit credit future liquidity migrate to dark
The Bloomberg / Eurex credit futures conference in mid-January 2026 had all seats taken and attendees standing in the aisles. That bursting enthusiasm was...
Human battles machine in JGB market
Participants say electronic trading of Japanese government bonds has reached an inflection point, but others counter that the death of voice trading has been...
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The 2026 Trading Intentions Survey has found that data is the most hotly-contested field in supporting corporate bond trading today, while analysis of trading...
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Chart of the week: Attack of the killer BBBs
The lowest tier of investment grade bonds show an interesting opportunity in the new issue space, as observed by analyst firm CreditSights. Relative value...
Trading systems FIXed to Ipreo for bond issuance
Primary market specialist Ipreo has launched a FIX-messaging based system for integrating the Ipreo Investor Access platform, which allows investors to electronically submit orders directly to...
Legal & General restructures with new AM division, departure of LGIM CEO
Michelle Scrimgeour, CEO of Legal & General Investment Management and vice-chair of the Investment Association, is stepping down from her role after five years...
Hult: The dealer business is changing
Who are the big beasts of the bond markets today? The red ink on banks’ recent quarterly earnings reports writes the latest chapter in...
Redburn sees value in bond market venue M&A
Analysis by broker Redburn has found that major exchanges – in which it included MarketAxess, the fixed income trading venue, and interdealer broker TP...
Tradition takes over BondsPro as MTS leaves US market
MTS, the European bond trading platform majority-owned by Euronext, has completed the sale of its US subsidiary MTS Markets International to Tradition America Holdings,...
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“Complete misunderstanding … or try[ing] to baffle people”; Lutnick counters Duffy
BGC Group’s Q2 earnings call this week wasted no time at all before addressing the ongoing spat between CEO Howard Lutnick and CME CEO...
Artis launches new loan product with Etrading Software
Artis Holdings in partnership with Etrading Software has launched its new loan technology to help provide automation and bring efficiency to the loan market.
In...
This Week from Trader TV: Sarah Harrison, Allspring Global Investments
Shifting EU-US credit valuations, navigating data gaps, and the rise of portfolio trading
Sarah Harrison, senior portfolio manager at Allspring Global Investments, discusses the firm’s...
Swinburne: Traders should beware of radical change in Europe
Brexit will mean that politics will take precedent over principal, when setting policy in Europe, warned Kay Swinburne MEP, speaking at the Fixed Income...
Barnes on Bonds: Secondary Gilt Trip
To look at the whipsaw effect of the UK’s 23 September mini-budget on secondary UK bond trading, we have taken data from MarketAxess TraX,...
Delivering a liquid market for NGEU bonds, Angelo Proni, MTS
Q&A with Angelo Proni, Head of New and Domestic Markets, MTS
Why is the NGEU initiative important for Europe?
On 21 July 2020, EU leaders agreed to...
