MarketAxess
CFTC Approves 18 SEFs, 5 Still Waiting
Clear Markets, FTSEF, GTX SEF, LedgerX and TeraExchange continue to operate under temporary registration.
MarketAxess Adds Asian Bond Trading to Platform
Asian local currency bond trading function designed to boost presence in APAC markets.
SEF Leaders Say Global Harmonization of Swaps Regulations Remains a Pipe Dream
Several SEF executives spoke at Sefcon VI about the challenges around finding common ground between US and European swaps regulations.
Four Months In, TruMid Discusses Credit Trading Platform
Mike Sobel gives an update on the company's trading platform after four months of activity.
Darkness Rising: Can Dark Pools Cure What Ails Credit Trading?
There is widespread agreement that buy-side firms need to trade with each other to boost dwindling credit market liquidity, and at least 15 platforms are preparing to make it happen. In part one of this two-part feature, Kris Devasabai looks at the…
MarketAxess Taps Former Bank Exec Eaton to Head European Trading, Data Ops
MarketAxess hires Scott Eaton as chief operating officer.
Opening Cross: In the Interest of Full Disclosure
Disclosure of market-moving information, and the industry that surrounds it, is changing rapidly.
MarketAxess Adds Interactive Data Continuous Evaluated Pricing to BondTicker
The inclusion of Interactive Data's content will provide a reference price for clients, officials say.
MarketAxess Bows Intraday Composite Price
MarketAxess has launched its Composite Price benchmark tool for European fixed income product, after rolling out in February Axess All, an intraday trade tape for European-fixed income markets.
Data Quality As Ideal and Driver
Raising data quality is both the purpose of data governance, linkage and discovery changes, and an incentive to improve those functions
MarketAxess Preps Euro Composite Price, Eyes Broader Expansion of Data Tools
The tool is part of a move by MarketAxess towards providing clients with more analytics and insight.
Benchmark Upheaval
MiFID II Causing Concern About Pricing Data
MarketAxess Adds Four Dealers to its European Platform
The Australia and New Zealand Bank (ANZ), the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC), Mizuho, and Toronto-Dominion (TD) have joined the MarketAxess system.
Fixed-Income ETFs: Pricing, Tech Evolve in This Rapidly Growing Space
The fixed-income ETF market is not yet 15 years old, but since 2007 the space has grown exponentially as institutional investors have taken notice of these increasingly liquid products. Anthony Malakian explores the reasons behind the interest in fixed…
MarketAxess Debuts ‘Axess All' EU Bond Trade Tape
Fixed income trading platform MarketAxess has launched Axess All, a service that provides aggregated pricing and volume for the most actively traded European bonds, and which the company describes as the industry's first intraday tape of trade data for…
MarketAxess Appoints Krein as Head of Research
Krein joins from Nasdaq OMX to lead institutional credit markets research.
T+2: Catalyst for Change
The move to a shortened settlement period from three days to two, commonly referred to as T+2, is set to shake up the European buy-side community when it comes into force on October 6. Marina Daras looks at the impact T+2 could have on transaction…
Tabb Appoints Perrotta as Head of Fixed-Income Research
New York-based research and consultancy firm Tabb Group has appointed industry veteran Anthony Perrotta as its new head of fixed-income research. Perrotta will report to Larry Tabb, the firm’s founder and CEO.
Swann Glides into Xtrakter Data Role
European fixed-income trade matching and regulatory reporting service provider Xtrakter has appointed Kevin Swann as head of data, responsible for the development and commercial direction of the company's data products.
MarketAxess Bows European BASI Liquidity Measure
New York-based fixed income marketplace operator MarketAxess launched a new indicator on Thursday, Feb. 6 called the European Bid-Ask Spread Index (BASI), which tracks liquidity in the European corporate bond market by comparing the prices of actively…
Consolidation, Algo Trading Coming to Corporate Bonds Platforms
At a recent Tabb Group conference on fixed income, a panel measured the electronic future of corporate bonds.
MarketAxess Expands Match to Wider User Base
MarketAxess has announced that its MarketAxess Trade Crossing Hub (Match) now offers a wider range of single-name credit-default swaps (CDS) to a larger universe of potential institutions.
MarketAxess SEF Online with Traiana's CreditLink
MarketAxess says it has completed the first live trade through its swap execution facility (SEF), using risk checks provided by Traiana's CreditLink hub.
MarketAxess Gains Temporary SEF Status
Electronic trading platform operator MarketAxess has received temporary approval from the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to operate as a Swap Execution Facility (SEF).