Dealer algos strike back in swaps market showdown

Auto-quoting starting to take root as incumbents try to keep pace with Citadel

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Keeping up: banks are fighting to win back market share

Size and speed are often thought to be mutually exclusive – it has certainly seemed that way in the US dollar swaps market, where new entrant Citadel Securities arrived in late 2014 with nothing but a sharp algorithm and tight prices, and proceeded to wrest market share from its big, ponderous rivals. On occasions, banks were so slow to respond to quote requests that clients did not even wait to see the price.

Now, some incumbent dealers are trying to add zip to their own swaps business, by

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