News

• 12/07/18
• Shanny Basar

The Primary Market is the remaining workflow that can be electronified in Fixed Income. Typically though for Fixed Income there are at least three initiatives that the buy-side will need to assess.

Bond issuance would benefit from technology that increases efficiency according to t.......

• 29/06/18
• Nick Baker and Matthew Leising

“This is a great example of improving price integrity and transparency by working closely with dealers in a way that meets their needs as well as buy-side customers.”

Chris White wants to drag corporate-bond trading into the 21st century. Or at least the late 20th centu.......

• 21/06/18
• Sean Burton

Paul Reynolds, Head of Fixed Income, comments, "It is difficult to say how many times over the years I have heard data evangelists expound on the potential of “big data”, but very easy to say how far this has got us, nowhere."

"Well now we really have the data, mandated under M.......

• 07/06/18
• Dan Barnes

“When a buy-side firm wants to use an EMS to stage orders for liquidity, typically it realises that it needs better technology to interact with the market and orders,” says Paul Reynolds, head of fixed income at EMS provider TradingScreen. “Collecting data is one function of.......

• 31/05/18
• Dan Barnes

"TradeSmart EMS carries both TRACE and EU traded volume data for pre-trade intelligence. It is quite obvious that European traders experience a data disadvantage, but TradingScreen is pulling the various EU trade sources into the EMS for the competitive benefit of its users," claims Paul Reyn.......

• 25/05/18
• Sean Burton

Paul Reynolds, Head of Fixed Income here at TradingScreen states, "When I asked a buy-side head of desk recently what he thought of Fixed Income trading infrastructure he paused at length then replied, “I know what it needs to do, but I don’t know what it looks like.  He is not al.......

• 17/05/18
• Hayley McDowell

TS is a fan of the further development of corporate bond market hedging tools. 

BlackRock, Cboe Global Markets and IHS Markit have joined forces to develop the first broad-based US corporate bond index futures. 

The futures will be based on BlackRock's iS.......

• 16/05/18
• FI Desk

Developing a consolidated tape for fixed income in Europe was never going to be easy but MiFID II only seems to complicate matters. The USA’s Trade Reporting and Compliance Engine (TRACE) may serve just as an inspiration but not a prototype for Europe’s fragmented markets and idiosyncr.......

• 04/05/18
• Silla Brush

MiFID II’s impact on the bond market is waning, leaving traders largely unaffected by price-disclosure rules they fought against for years.

• 19/04/18
• Paul Reynolds

New York – April 18, 2018– TradingScreen Inc. (TS), the all-asset class order and execution management system (OEMS), today announced a partnership and product integration with BondCliQ, the corporate bond market’s first central market system. The integration of BondCliQ’s .......

• 13/04/18
• Shanny Basar

European Union regulations have introduced new transparency and post-trade reporting requirements in order to increase transparency but there have been problems due to the poor quality of some reference data.

• 10/04/18
• Dave Michaels

Wall Street could get the green light to hold back some information from the public about large bond trades under a proposal advanced Monday by a Securities and Exchange Commission advisory panel.

• 06/04/18
• Hayley McDowell

JP Morgan boss Jamie Dimon has listed exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and passive index funds among the risks the institution is currently most worried about.

• 03/04/18
• Mark Russell

The evolution of data-led intelligence
Despite recent workflow innovations and the search for the next great protocol, around 95% of cash bond e-trad.......

• 02/04/18
• Anonymous

The pipeline of growth is returning after MiFID II, with reliance on specific platforms increasing. In 2017 the appetite for onboarding new platforms plummeted, not least as a side-effect of the operational stress that MiFID II placed upon buy-side firms.

• 02/04/18
• Shanny Basar

Fixed income market participants said a consolidated tape is needed as soon as possible in Europe in order to meet the increased transparency desired by new regulation.

• 27/03/18
• Hayley McDowell

MiFID II research pricing war has seen price of fixed income research plummet as banks compete against each other.

• 22/03/18
• Shanny Basar

Buy-side heads of fixed income dealing said they will focus this year on obtaining the data they need to evidence best execution as required under new regulations.

• 22/03/18
• Sonali Basak

Morgan Stanley the top equities shop on Wall Street, is ready for dealing bonds to look more like trading stocks.

• 19/03/18
• Hayley McDowell

Corporate bond asset managers are looking to switch or upgrade their order management system (OMS) and execution management system (EMS), according to a new study by Liquidnet.

• 16/03/18
• Hayley McDowell

TradingScreen’s CEO, Pierre Schroeder, delves into the firm’s multi-asset OEMS, the importance of partnerships with other vendors and his focus in 2018.

• 16/03/18
• Trumid

Average daily trading volumes grew 25% in February, and month-to-date March volumes are up 100% from February

• 14/03/18
• Anna Irera

JPMorgan Chase & Co has made a strategic investment in Mosaic Smart Data, a company that has developed technology to help banks make their fixed-income sales and trading businesses more profitable.

• 08/03/18
• Hayley McDowell

BlackRock will use MarketAxess for Asian credit trading after signing up to Open Trading for US and European credit trading.

• 07/03/18
• Gary Stone

MiFID II’s post-trade reporting requirements are increasing transparency in the bond market – and no country appears exempt. Is it possible that MiFID II will incentivize market regulators in other jurisdictions and countries to consider expanding bond market transparency as well?

• 02/03/18
• John D'Antona

Slow and inefficient software deployment processes cost the financial services industry some $1.5 billion annually. Financial service firms could recoup those costs by adopting innovative technology solutions used to deploy software relatively sea.......

• 27/02/18
• Hayley McDowell

Regulatory upheaval has resulted in a surge in the use of transaction cost analysis (TCA) on buy-side equities desks, according to new research.

• 26/02/18
• John D'Antona

Banks around the world are upgrading—or at the very least, maintaining—the talent and technology of their fixed-income platforms to take full advantage when volatility and client trading activity and revenues return.<.......

• 23/02/18
• Tracy Alloway

If you are looking for signs of ructions in the credit market you might have to dig deep -- and you might not be pleased with what you find.

• 21/02/18
• Sarah Jane Mahmud

About a month into MiFID II, buy-side and sell-side companies across the globe are feeling the pressure o.......

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• 16/02/18
• Matthew Leising and Molly Smith

Electronic trading in the $8 trillion dollar U.S. corporate-bond market is beginning to heat up. 

• 09/02/18
• Paul Reynolds

Second year honored as Best Fixed Income Platform Provider  .......

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• 07/02/18
• Chris White

The end of 2017 brought another year of underwhelming revenue for fixed income market-makers. While down years are common for Wall St banks, this slump in fixed income is unusually lengthy.

• 05/02/18
• Hayley McDowell @ The Trade News

Latest study from Liquidnet suggests a shift in sell-side relationships is causing a decline in the RFQ model.

• 31/01/18
• Hayley McDowell

MarketAxess has reported a record total trading volume for the full year in 2017 of $1.5 trillion, up more than 10% from the year prior.The fixed income electronic trading platform set records across the board last year with total revenue and operating income also breaking previous records.

• 30/01/18
• Bloomberg News

Blackstone Group LP is in talks to buy a controlling stake in Thomson Reuters Corp.’s key business that provides data, analytics and trading platforms to Wall Street and financial professionals around the world.

• 25/01/18
• Terry Flanagan

Do Order Management Systems inhibit innovation in institutional fixed income trading? On balance, yes. 

• 25/01/18
• Sarah Jane Mahmud

The European Union’s long-anticipated implementation of MiFID II reform will change the way institutional investors pay for research.

• 22/01/18
• Gabriel Callsen @ ICMA

Please be aware that ESMA has issued an update of the liquidity assessments for bonds in relation to MiFID II/R transparency requirements.

• 15/01/18
• ICMA [press release]

• 15/01/18
• www.curatia.com

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission disbanded a panel of industry advisers whose recommendations on improving trading in the world’s largest stock market largely landed with a thud.

The SEC summarily disbanded the Equity Market Structure Advisory Committee in an email to memb.......

• 12/01/18
• By Terry Flanagan, Marketsmedia.com

Fixed-income liquidity isn’t what it used to be, and market participants must continue to adjust to achieve trading efficiency in what is expected to be a challenging landscape for the foreseeable future.

• 10/01/18
• U.S. Securities And Exchange Commission

The January 11 meeting will focus on bond market liquidity issues, and will also cover certain administrative items.  The meeting will be held at the SEC’s headquarters at 100 F Street, N.E., Washington, D.C., and is open to the public.

• 08/01/18
• Jon Wilson

Deadline day for MiFID II implementation has come and gone. But make no mistake – this package of EU directives and regulation will continue to have a significant impact in the year ahead.

• 03/01/18
• ICMA

To:         ICMA MiFID II Working Group (MWG) 

ICMA Platform Working Group (PWG)

Re:         ICMA FCA Q&A session with Stephen Hanks – 7 December 2017

[Including: K.......

• 03/01/18
• Christopher Whittall

Trading in some bonds fell sharply in Europe on Wednesday as banks implemented the massive set of new finance regulations known as Mifid II.

• 03/01/18
• Anthony Perrotta

The frenzied race to grab a share of the electronic trading of US corporate bonds took a surreal turn this week, as Intercontinental Exchange bought Virtu Financial’s BondPoint ATS for $400 million. 

• 03/01/18
• Joe Steinmetz & Allan Chiulli

The update to the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) is changing the operating paradigm of exchanging client commissions for execution and research by, among other things, requiring asset managers to: (1) clearly delineate the execution cost versus the research cost on every tra.......

• 02/01/18
• Timothy O'Halloran

As implementation of MiFID II draws near, conventional wisdom is that few industry players – both broker-dealers and investment managers – are fully prepared to meet its requirements. 

• 20/12/17
• Hayley McDowell

European regulator issues six-month grace period as it learns firms are unlikely to meet 3 January deadline.

• 18/12/17
• John Glover and Silla Brush

With less than 1 percent of notes affected by rules on price disclosure when MiFID II kicks in next month, years of lobbying by the bond industry appear to have paid off.

• 12/12/17
• By Hayley McDowell, hayley.mcdowell@strategic-i.com

Tradeweb gains regulatory approval from the FCA to operate as an OTF for MiFID II.

• 08/12/17
• Gabriel Callsen, ICMA

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published on 6 December 2017 the MiFID II/R transitional transparency calculations for equity and bond instruments (excluding Exchange Traded Commodities and Exchange Traded Notes).

• 06/12/17
• By Silla Brush

The European Union’s MiFID II law is expected to drive a significant, rapid shift in trading of bonds and derivatives to electronic and other trading venues.

• 05/12/17
• Matt Levine @ bloomberg.com

No one is around to make sure you can buy or sell at a moment's notice.

• 01/12/17
• fridaynewsletter.com

A European Commission study has confirmed what every corporate bond market participant already knew was true – the market has a liquidity problem.

• 01/12/17
• http://spacegab.com/

Trumid, a financial technology company bringing trading efficiency and market intelligence to corporate bonds, announced today that $5 billion in volume has traded on the Trumid Market Center platform since Labor Day, 2017.

• 20/11/17
• Katie Linsell, Bloomberg News

European bond traders are looking on the bright side of tougher transparency rules — unprecedented market data that can help them make sure they’re not getting ripped off.

• 10/11/17
• Original Author, The Trade News

Fixed income trading heads expect to take on a new role as price-deciders once MiFID II has come into effect on 3 January next year.

• 10/11/17
• Original Author, The Trade News

Asset managers are looking to hire data scientists who will sit on the trading desk and work directly with the traders.

• 10/11/17
• Original Author, The Trade News

Heads of fixed income at buy-side firms debated whether liquidity has declined at the Fixed Income Leaders Summit.

• 06/11/17
• Original Author, Vela Trading Blog

There is an information gap in fixed income markets, and it’s getting wider. Fixed income markets lack any centralized infrastructure and have never distributed consolidated price data; the number of non-fungible instruments traded, dealers’ withdrawal from market-making activity, and .......

• 03/11/17
• Greenwich Associates

Corporate bond investors are making up for the loss of market liquidity by deploying new tools that leverage data and analytics – and technologies providers are working to meet that demand.

• 27/10/17
• Paul Reynolds @ TradingScreen

TS is a proud sponsor, exhibitor and panelist at the 2017 Fixed Income Leaders Summit in Amsterdam.

• 27/10/17
• By Elizabeth Pfeuti, Financial News

A failure to embrace digitisation could see investors fall even further out of love with banks, the consultancy says

• 26/10/17
• Hedgeweek

Forty-five per cent of European fixed income heads are still struggling with MiFID II compliance, despite the 3 January implementation deadline looming large, according to a new report: “On the precipice: Are you ready for MiFID II?”, by the Fixed Income Leaders’ Summit.

• 23/10/17
• Paul Reynolds @ TradingScreen

As the last one hundred days of life before MiFID II becomes the new regulatory environment tick by, the level of stress and anxiety correspondingly increases. Let’s just remind ourselves, MiFID II is one year delayed already, so why all the fuss?

Like any new environment, adapting t.......

• 23/10/17
• Julie Segal, Institutional Investor

…besides billions of dollars, is nearly-perfect bond pricing information. Good news: that playing field may soon be leveled.

• 23/10/17
• Will Hadfield, Bloomberg Markets

A potentially explosive battle is brewing over a seldom-discussed aspect of the looming MiFID II laws, which will force traders of any European asset class to hand over personal identification such as passport numbers to every venue they trade on.

• 17/10/17
• Lee Bartholomew, head of fixed income & FX product R&D at Eurex

Lee Bartholomew, head of fixed income & FX product R&D at Eurex, discusses the launch of new corporate bond index futures.

• 13/10/17
• By Lucy McNulty @ fn

Banks, exchanges and market infrastructure firms are quietly lobbying European regulators to slightly delay sweeping changes to Europe’s trading rulebook amid last-minute panic that the reforms will cause “a Y2K event”.

• 10/10/17
• Kevin McPartland @ www.greenwich.com

Those global and regional dealers that have seen their market share grow over the past 10 years are largely those that have invested heavily in technology—allowing them to manage the market and service their customer better than their peers.

• 10/10/17
• Joe Parsons @ www.thetradenews.com

Deutsche Bank has set up as a systematic internaliser (SI) for bonds and derivatives trading under MiFID II.

The German bank will launch the new trading platform on MiFID II’s start date on 3 January 2018, ahead of the of.......

• 04/10/17
• John Bakie john.bakie@strategic-i.com

Buy-side firms should be wary of overusing requests for quote (RFQs) to evidence their best execution once MiFID II comes into force on 3 January 2018, according to a panel of experts.

• 28/09/17
• Martin Scheck, Chief Executive @ ICM

The Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) is a European Union law that provides harmonized regulation for investment services across the 31 Member States of the European Economic Area.

• 27/09/17
• Hayley McDowell @ www.thetradenews.com

Survey finds 78% of heads of fixed income at asset management firms would team up with other trading desks to source liquidity.

• 22/09/17
• Joe Ahearn

For today’s Fixed Income traders it can feel like you are under the weight of a regulatory tsunami. The extreme pressure to comply with the endless waves of new regulations and to determine how to best transition your workflow and still achieve best execution smoothly, presents a challenge t.......

• 20/09/17
• Brian Cassin @ Vela, taken from Tabb Forum

Many electronic fixed income platforms have launched to make trading easier, but there are now so many that the market has become more complicated. With the continued push for greater transparency around pricing, quoting and trading, how can firms ensure they get the nuts and bolts of connectivity.......

• 14/09/17
• Stephane Leroy | QuantHouse, taken from Tabb Forum

MiFID II is geared toward increasing transparency – not only across both the pre- and post-trade regimes, but across all asset classes. Specifically, the regulator will be looking for firms to demonstrate the how and why of trading decisions. How can firms best comply with this requirement t.......

• 14/09/17
• Chris White CEO ViableMkts

The first step to understanding bond market liquidity is to first articulate what “liquidity” is as a construct.

• 14/09/17
• By John Bakie @strategic-i.com

Letter to ESMA from major fixed income venues claims transparency rules will drive non-MiFID firms onto unregulated venues in Asia and North America.

• 05/09/17
• Taken from businesstimes.com

No doubt about it, you need to gather a rich dataset of pre-trade liquidity data for yourself for best execution, but also now for the regulators. TradeSmart FI EMS is the tool to perform this task effortlessly for you.

• 05/09/17
• Jim Greco Founder of Direct Match and Trading Places.

Competition amongst the dominant trading platforms is a welcome force in driving trading efficiency, but it is also driving them apart, just when the regulations say you need to work with all of them synchronously. TradeSmart FI EMS can pull all this data together in one place pre-trade and point .......