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What’s the market for Ion Markets?
With whispers swirling that Ion’s chief executive is looking to cash out on his tech conglomerate, big changes could be coming to the world of fixed-income software.
Connective tissue: S&P's InvestorAccess enables secondary market-like trading of primary issues
Through a combination of its own technology and partnerships with fixed-income mainstays Bloomberg and Tradeweb, S&P is looking to create end-to-end workflows to simplify trading of primary bond issues for both buy-side and sell-side firms.
MarketAxess looks to proprietary data and automation with new offerings
The fixed-income trading provider’s Adaptive Auto-X automation tool and new data offerings were a bright spot amid lackluster Q2 earnings.
Automation in fixed income: Sorting the bluster from the bleeding edge
Automation is gaining traction in fixed-income markets, but use cases are limited and progress is slow. Market participants must overcome some uniquely human problems before they fully embrace the machine.
Asia Awards 2023: Best trading network—MarketAxess
Product: Open Trading
This Week: Europe’s Mifir review, MarketAxess, FIA, and more
A summary of the latest financial technology news.
IMD & IRD Awards 2023 winner's interview: MarketAxess
MarketAxess won the best AI/machine learning data initiative in this year’s Inside Market Data & Inside Reference Data Awards, thanks to its CP+ bond pricing engine.
High-profile deals signal appetite for fixed-income growth
Amid renewed interest in the bond market, big firms are making strategic acquisitions to get in on the action.
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.