Trading platforms
Imperfect harmony: industry balks at EU foreign venue rules
Proposal could force non-EU platforms to choose between following Mifid II or ditching EU firms
Buy side using two-way prices in bid to hide trade intent
Number of trades done via ‘request-for-market’ protocol leaps 510% in past year
Symphony bots march on Bloomberg
New chat system touted as sales and trading game-changer, as banks build hundreds of add-ons
trueEX sues 11 banks over swaps ‘conspiracy’
Platform alleges market-makers acted to preserve dominance of bank-owned Tradeweb
EU close to granting swaps-trading equivalence to Singapore
Planned MAS trading obligation would otherwise seal off local traders from global liquidity
Number of banks per RFQ jumps in EU, posing risk to prices
Some requests for quote are sent to over 20 dealers, raising worries about information leakage
Isins for swaps need ‘complete rethink’, say platforms
Three trading venues say Mifid II transparency objectives diminished by identifier choice
Trading platform innovation of the year: OpenDoor Trading
Risk Awards 2018: Start-up hopes to boost off-the-run UST liquidity via auctions and all-to-all trading
Tradeweb’s Mifid bilateral trading plans draw fire
New process will class privately executed trades as on-venue to satisfy trading obligation
BlackRock’s Prager backs unified fixed-income trading concept
A single venue for trading bonds, ETFs and derivatives is 'on the drawing board'
The changing face of European interest rate swaps trading
Sponsored webinar: Tradeweb
Late adopters: why buy-siders are sticking to RFQ
Asset managers have been slow to embrace alternative trading protocols in fixed income
Citadel exec laments fragmentation of US Treasury liquidity
Risk USA: New trading venues decrease price transparency, says Nicola White
MarketAxess to offer cut-price dark pool liquidity
High-yield bond block trades could be 100bp cheaper on new platform, says executive
Digital disruptors: The digitalisation of Asian structured products
Sponsored feature: Leonteq
Fixed-income trading platform of the year: UBS
Firm prices saw 'real end-users' flock to Bond Port in 2015
Bank technology provider of the year: UBS
Neo platform proves its mettle for actively managed certificates
Isda escapes CDS case pledge to help CFTC
Association still faces licensing overhaul as part of pending settlement
All-to-all liquidity 'is not the panacea' – FIA panel
New trading venues seen as an alternative to dealer liquidity in OTC markets
TruMid takes early lead in credit dark pool race
Nearly $2.5 billion of corporate bond trades have been executed on dark pools since May
Multi-issuer platforms clash over MIPs’ purpose
Information hubs or one-stop-shop for structured products?
Contineo plans Asia expansion
Multi-issuer platform to challenge established regional players
Cost pressures spur growth in multi-issuer platforms
Higher costs on low-margin flow products drives shift to new platforms
Multi-issuer platforms face off for Asia structured product market
Four platforms are now fighting for private bank business