How electronic quoting could jolt gilts back to life
While UK government bond market stagnates, Italy boosts on-venue trading with dealer incentives. Should London take a leaf from Rome’s bookrunners?
UK bond investors will sympathise with Keir Starmer. Much like the country’s latest ex-prime minister, they wake up most mornings with a gnawing sense of dread at the prospect of the day’s fresh bad news.
The yield on benchmark UK government bonds, or gilts, has jagged from 4.11% when Labour won a landslide general election in July 2024, to 5.18% after the ruling party’s disastrous performance in
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