Articles by Bernard Goyder
Canada’s triparty repo launch aims to fill C$60bn void
Test trades on TMX/Clearstream platform represent “quantum leap” for creaking funding markets
Consortium backs BGC’s effort to challenge CME
Banks and market-makers – including BofA, Citi, Goldman, Jump and Tower – will have a 26% stake in FMX
Liquidnet sees electronic future for grey bond trading
TP Icap’s grey market bond trading unit has more than doubled transactions in the first quarter of 2024
Citi halves swaptions book with US retail funds
Counterparty Radar: Mutual funds and ETFs cut exposures by 22% in Q4
Crédit Agricole hires head of USD swaps and UST trading
John O’Callaghan joins French bank in New York from Garda Capital
BlackRock’s interest rate swaps notional climbs 20%
Counterparty Radar: US retail funds continued to add to their positions in Q4
BGC forming consortium to take on CME Group’s rates empire
Banks and PTFs are being offered a stake in FMX, which has CFTC approval to launch a futures exchange
Robinhood buys Marex FCM as futures entry takes shape
Retail broking giant follows WeBull into futures market
Kane to leave Citadel Securities for senior Miax role
Options exchange has been on a four-year acquisition spree
Reluctantly, CME moves to clear US Treasuries
CME Group will seek regulatory approval to clear US Treasuries, chief executive Terry Duffy said today
Singapore Exchange to return to short-term rates market
SGX president Syn hails new Sora and Tona futures as the “missing chunk of the rates complex”
Clobbered: how ‘toxic’ flows reshaped US Treasury trading
Volumes have dropped by more than a third at BrokerTec. The reasons are complex, the outlook uncertain
Hedge funds find plenty to dislike in SEC’s dealer-rule rewrite
‘Nobody knows’ for certain which investing strategies might lead to firms being forced to register as dealers
NatWest Securities US Treasury trading head departs
Jason Sable joined the UK bank in January 2022 from BNP Paribas
JP Morgan names new co-heads of markets
Sippel and Thakur will lead a trading business that has been reshaped over the past 18 months
Mizuho’s life insurance swaptions notional climbs 575% in a year
Counterparty Radar: Prudential, Global Atlantic add substantially to positions in Q3 as market’s notional total grows to $184bn
BMO Capital Markets gaining ground in US Treasuries
Canadian bank goes head-to-head with large US bulge brackets in D2C market
Citi swaption volumes surge as BlackRock relationship flourishes
Counterparty Radar: Market leader Pimco cuts nearly one-third of book in Q3
Pimco’s interest rate swaps book shrinks 21% in Q3
Counterparty Radar: BlackRock and Capital Group also trim positions to drive down swaps usage by US mutual funds
Start-up bond platform OpenYield prepares to launch
Start-up aims to give retail brokers the same electronic liquidity used by the professionals
Repo price spike concentrated in FICC DVP market
Soaring demand for cleared repo blamed for largest SOFR spike in four years
PTFs loaded up on US Treasuries during SVB collapse
Treasury official says non-bank interdealer market share rose 10 percentage points in March as dealers retreated
SEC to delay US Treasury clearing mandate, dealer rule
A final vote on proposed US Treasury market reforms is now expected in early 2024
ARRC shuts down, with some questions still unanswered
Fed-backed group calls time on Libor transition with questions over term SOFR and CSRs still swirling