Electronic trading
A buy-side swaps order book – with a difference
First client joins Trad-X Clob as dealers get nervy about large-scale RFQs
Currencies flow market-maker of the year: Citadel Securities
Risk Awards 2019: Credit innovation opens up market-making to previously out-of-reach customers
Risk Markets Technology Awards 2019: Vendors enter the pick-and-mix era
Modular tech and micro-services – plus new risk and regulatory needs – are creating openings for insurgents and incumbents
OTC trading platform of the year: Trad-X
Risk Awards 2019: From a D2C Clob to CCP-specific pricing, Trad-X isn’t scared to rock the boat
Equities flow market-maker of the year: Citadel Securities
Risk Awards 2019: Risk management overhaul helps market-maker navigate February 5 volatility
Currency derivatives house of year: BNP Paribas
Risk Awards 2019: French bank hits options windfall in Turkey during currency crash
Streaming liquidity provider of the year: XTX Markets
Risk Awards 2019: Non-bank market-maker doubles direct relationship presence in forex
Rates flow market-maker of the year: LBBW
Risk Awards 2019: Landesbank uses e-trading – and Brexit – to boost its euro swap volumes, and its voice
BNPP targets US equities in new tie-up with GTS
French bank says derivatives business will benefit from better prices and liquidity in underlying stocks
Structured product platforms take off in Asia
Multi-dealer platforms Contineo and FinIQ seek to replicate success in Europe’s fragmented market
Jump: inside the secretive e-trading giant
Execs at the Chicago prop firm wish the whole world was a Clob, but as bilateral volumes rise, they’ve decided to go with the flow
Industry fears EU ‘Google tax’ will hit trading venues, CCPs
Broad wording of digital services tax could place market infrastructure in firing line
Sef reforms could distort new, sounder benchmark rates
Tradition’s Fitzpatrick warns that more ways of trading swaps could dent progress made on fixings
Off-the-run barriers frustrate Jump Trading
Chicago prop firm has been unable to break into the market for off-the-run Treasuries
Day one of a no-deal Brexit: swaps and chaperones
Banks, trading platforms, repositories tee up EU entities – and dread the repapering crunch that would follow
Dealers sour on Mifid’s systematic internaliser label
SI decisions will take account of tougher pre-trade rules, client demand and Brexit
Direct streaming gains foothold in US Treasuries market
Cost savings drive dealers away from Clob model into alternative venues
Buy side using two-way prices in bid to hide trade intent
Number of trades done via ‘request-for-market’ protocol leaps 510% in past year
To Hull and back: a 20-year hiatus in bank e-trading plans
In the 1990s, banks tried to buy automated trading expertise; now, after a long break, they’re trying to build it
Machine earning: how tech is shaking up bank market-making
As banks get serious about e-trading, humans are being asked to give up their secrets to the machines that could replace them
Hunt for toxic flow hits one of banking’s old problems
Wider use of mark-out tools helps banks spot ‘bad’ trades – and also stirs debate on pay
‘People who bought this swap also bought Apple’
Dealers hope personalisation algos will help them cut sales costs, but data gaps could be a problem
Rise of the cyborgs: tech remakes the front office
Dealers “have no choice” but to change, says UBS’s Orcel – and plenty of changes are coming
trueEX sues 11 banks over swaps ‘conspiracy’
Platform alleges market-makers acted to preserve dominance of bank-owned Tradeweb