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This Week: EU CT updates, OpenFin, DTCC/Nomura, TMX/Clearstream, and more
A summary of the latest financial technology news.
IMD & IRD Awards 2023: Best AI/machine learning data initiative—MarketAxess
Product: Composite+
Buy side demands better data aggregation for primary corporate bonds
With electronification and tech development increasing in fixed income, participants are looking for better data access in the primary market for corporate bonds.
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2023: Best sell-side trading network—MarketAxess
Product: Open Trading
After slow start, the ‘Big 3’ fixed-income consortium taps Finbourne as partner for CT bid
The Bloomberg, Tradeweb and MarketAxess consortium switched out its advisory firms at the end of last year to jumpstart its bid for the tape.
Treasury traders remain wary about adopting algos
Yet proponents insist US government bond market is ‘ready for disruption’
People Moves: MarketAxess, Broadway, SimCorp and more
A look at some recent people moves in the capital markets tech and data space.
Consolidated tapes gain ground in 2022
Regulators in the US, UK, and EU moved to push forward market data efforts this year.
Lessons from credit: Could all-to-all help Treasury markets?
Regulators are looking to all-to-all trading as a possible solution for worrying volatility and deteriorating liquidity in US Treasury markets.
Banks express concern over top venues’ bid for EU consolidated tape
End-users are worried about the repercussions of handing over a data monopoly to the heavyweight operators in the fixed income space.
Waters Wrap: Are consortiums more viable in today’s tech environment?
Rishi Nangalia and Nilesh Nanavati, founding partners of advisory firm OpCo, say that while consortium projects are popular in the capital markets, most fail to get off the ground. Can that be prevented?
Bloomberg, MarketAxess, Tradeweb probe three tech partners for consolidated tape bid
Venue-led consortium plans to pick a winner before EU regulators begin tender process – anticipated in third or fourth quarter of 2023.
Waters Wrap: Banks explore new avenues for cloud cooperation
As banks and asset managers move more workloads to the cloud, they’re trying to find ways to cooperate to cut costs and exert more influence over the likes of AWS, Google and Microsoft. Anthony wonders if these early efforts will yield beneficial results…
UK divergence on trading venue perimeter threatens more costs and a complex compliance landscape
The FCA is in the middle of a tug of war over the definition of a trading venue. Will it diverge in a bid to present itself as a competitive market internationally or align with its EU partners?
This Week: Six Group, Broadway Technology/ MarketAxess, Linedata and more
A summary of the latest financial technology news.
People Moves: Citi, OpenFin, Genesis, Liquidnet and more
A look at some of the key "people moves" from this past week, including Vicky Sanders (pictured), OpenFin’s new chief digital officer.
Retooling repo: How Broadridge, Bloomberg, Tradeweb, and JP Morgan are modernizing repurchase agreements
From brokers to trading platform providers, players in the repo market are focused on initiatives around reducing settlement fails, increasing automation, and streamlining operations.
MarketAxess completes migration of Deutsche Börse’s reg reporting businesses
The market operator has onboarded about 500 new clients and aims to create new revenue streams to ease the ongoing cost and margin pressures.
Project Octopus becomes Octaura, killing BofA’s Instinct platform and Citi Velocity trading protocol
Backed by the banks in the Project Octopus consortium, the new, independent company will launch this year with a focus on new trading protocols and integrated data analytics. At the same time, Bank of America will sunset its single-dealer loan trading…
Top three fixed income venues confirm bid to deliver EU consolidated tape for bonds
Bloomberg, MarketAxess and Tradeweb will join forces to create an independent company and will submit a request for information in search for a third-party vendor to partner with.
Is an EMS an exchange? Vendors alarmed by scope of Reg ATS amendments
Some industry participants are worried that proposed amendments to Regulation ATS could see the trading perimeter expanded to include a wide array of messaging systems.
This Week: State Street/MarketAxess, Aquis, Linedata & More
A summary of the latest financial technology news.
This Week: Goldman Sachs, MSCI/MarketAxess, Cboe/ErisX, & more
A summary of the latest financial technology news.
One versus many: Firms question viability of UK CT model
Market participants and industry groups are challenging the UK government’s approach to a competitive framework for the consolidated tape.