Electronic trading
Banks team up for ‘Ion replacement’ project
Consortium weighs building fixed income software in potential threat to Ion, the dominant vendor
At bounding MarketAxess platform, a new CRO parses risk
Clarity and communication are basics to Oliver Huggins at one of the biggest US bond platforms
Funds look to ‘retrain’ traders as automation takes hold
As technology reshapes markets, nearly a third of buy-side staff will need to gain new skills
Ice swap rate failure disrupts exotics desks
Dollar version of rate wasn’t published on nine out of 22 working days in August
SEC mulls extra scrutiny of US Treasuries trading venues
Roisman suggests US might apply full rigour of Reg ATS to non-exchange Treasuries platforms
Insight Investment wary of banks’ last-look claims
Buy side should “team up” in bid for more forex transparency, argues senior trader
Tradeweb reveals package trading for swaps and bonds
New tool offers pricing and trading of sterling swap-bond combo
Buy side seeks more clarity on FX trade rejects
Schroders and BoE criticise code mish-mash, as Investment Association presses for standardisation
Market-maker of the year: Jane Street
Asia Risk Awards 2019
Esma probes blurry line between FX vendors and venues
Forex liquidity aggregators resemble trading platforms – but are not regulated as such, critics charge
How the top 50 dealers tackle forex last look
Uneven disclosure practices are making life difficult for agency algos and ECN trading
Six big forex market-makers call for end to last look
Citadel Securities, Jump and Virtu among those repudiating controversial practice
Rival FXPBs scoop up former Citi clients
BNP Paribas, Deutsche Bank among those taking on clients axed by the US bank, plus others worried they’ll be next
Banks and prop shops expect more trading tie-ups
Risk Live: White-labelling a new battleground, with Barclays, BNP, Citadel and Jump touting price streams
UBS unleashes Orca for rates clients
Machine learning algo trawls liquidity pools to slash US Treasury trading costs
Keeping the robots honest
Human overseers are in short supply in an arena where losses can be crippling in minutes
Citi culls HFTs from FXPB client list
HC Technologies, Jump Trading and Virtu Financial among those told to find a new prime broker
CFTC official warns on Sef rule overhaul
Isda AGM: Targeted changes better than a total rewrite, says Rostin Behnam
Use-cases for Mifid II data prove elusive
Banks running market share analysis from trade reports, but data quality hampering other projects
Relationship banking isn’t dead, just different
Some asset managers are pumping banks for liquidity leads. But what can they offer in return?
Dealers suffer in euro rates desert
Analysis shows collapse in swap and bond bid/offer spreads, as traders say business is “unsustainable”
DE Shaw rebukes Giancarlo’s big idea on Sefs
Hedge fund endorses electronic trading, as CFTC pushes for a return to old phone-based business
BrokerTec outage serves as ‘systemic risk’ wake-up call
January 11 shutdown of dominant US Treasury market platform worries participants
Arnott, Harvey: machine learning dangerous when data thin
Experts warn ML should be used “for its correct purpose”