Fixed income
Empirasign Adds to Dealer Run Quotes
Empirasign Strategies, a New York-based provider of dealer offerings and "trade color" for mortgage and asset-backed securities, is adding new datasets covering bids and two-way markets to its database of fixed-income pricing, in response to client…
Thomson Reuters Adds ANZ Bond Pricing
Australia and New Zealand Banking Group has begun contributing prices for more than 2,700 credit bonds denominated in Australian, New Zealand and US dollars as well as pounds sterling and euros on Thomson Reuters' Fixed Income Trading bond platform.
Thomson Reuters, SGX Ally on Bond Indexes
Thomson Reuters has unveiled a suite of Singapore dollar bond indexes, developed with the Singapore Exchange, to help fund managers, asset owners and custodians benchmark investment performance and to provide increased transparency into local bond…
Interactive Data, Icap Strike Data Distribution Deal
Interactive Data has signed a licensing agreement with Icap Information Services, the data services arm of interdealer broker Icap, to make the entire universe of Icap data available on its Consolidated Feed of data from more than 450 exchanges and over…
Brownstone Investment Group Taps Martines for Munis Trading
The fixed income investment firm has hired Matthew Martines as new managing director for its municipal trading and electronic market-making units.
Sunstate Bank Taps SS&C for Fixed Income Trading
Sunstate Bank, which is headquartered in Miami and has $164 million of total assets, is extending its partnership with SS&C Technologies to support fixed income trading.
S&P CapIQ Adds Credit Risk Indicators to XpressFeed
S&P Capital IQ is planning to make its entire universe of pre-scored point-in-time, short- to mid-term and long-term credit risk indicators for financial institutions and non-financial corporates available via its XpressFeed data platform.
SocGen Bond Prices on Thomson Reuters Trading Platform, Data Services
Société Générale has begun contributing cash bond prices to Thomson Reuters' Fixed Income Trading electronic platform, expanding the bank's price distribution to a broader base of trading desks at private banks and wealth managers, while increasing the…
Bloomberg Bows Range of OTC Indexes
The data giant unveils a play for OTC index business, leveraging its existing index and analytics tools, and market penetration.
Fixed Income special report
June 2013 - sponsored by: BI-SAM, Equinix
Liquidity Fragmentation in Fixed Income is Here to Stay, Says iTB CEO
Michael Chuang has made a big bet that history will not repeat itself when it comes to a massive collapse in the number of fixed income trading platforms.
What Does the Partnership Between BlackRock and MarketAxess Say About Aladdin?
BlackRock made big news last year by opening up its Aladdin corporate bond trading platform to the broader market. Some feel that its recent alliance with MarketAxess means it has already thrown in the towel.
Live Squawk Enlists Market Chartist for Audio-Visual Analysis
Live Squawk adds technical charts and narration to its offering from research analyst Steve Miley
Q&A: Transparency Needs Make Bond Markets Tick
Post-credit crunch, the financial industry expects higher quality and timely fixed income data, with more accurate evaluated prices and transparency of exchange-traded assets, which could stimulate high-frequency bond trading. Simon Linwood, data manager…
Startup iPerform Data Bows Near-Real-Time Bond Pricing
More frequent pricing will create greater transparency for traders and index providers, officials say.