Electronic trading
Tradeweb’s head of Asia reflects on the firm's year of connecting China’s investor community with global financial markets
James Sun, industry veteran and Tradeweb's head of Asia, talks about the firm's 2021 Asia-Pacific highlights, including the evolution of mainland China’s financial markets and how Bond Connect’s Southbound channel is streamlining Chinese investors’…
Dealers look to cut SDP prices amid platform fee battle
JP Morgan offers different pricing for single and multi-dealer venues; Barclays mulls same approach
Last look: who is axing hold times, who isn’t – and who won’t say
Liquidity providers rush to review trading policies as GFXC pushes for zero hold times
Fee standoff intensifies as FX spreads compress
As spread squeeze continues, brokers refuse to budge on trading fees
EU firms call for single consolidated tape provider
Some say new rules could create data fragmentation and raise connectivity costs
Currenex lawyers ask judge to dismiss class action lawsuit
Case alleging secret priority trading deals brought too late and not based on facts, defence argue
Non-bank growth in e-credit spurs dealer algo push
As the likes of Jane Street capture more electronic business, dealers are reassessing their capabilities
OTC trading platform of the year: Tradeweb
Asia Risk Awards 2021
Currenex case may herald focus on e-FX’s ‘Wild West’ days
FX sources say “uncomfortable secrets” could emerge as attention turns to platform relationships
Algo sniffers make a tough business tougher
FX spot is already a hard game for many LPs and the rise of skew sniping only makes things harder
Banks lure FX algo sharks into shallow waters
Sick of losing out to predatory HFTs, dealers are trying to create liquidity pools they can trust
Mizuho tries its hand in European rates
Japanese bank bets on handful of deep relationships to compete in crowded European market
PBs get new help in war on generosity
Big FX venue operators offer way to reduce overallocation of credit
Banks and HFTs team up to solve exchange outage dilemma
Hopes that ‘gentlemen’s agreement’ can break first-mover disadvantage for liquidity providers
Inside Wells Fargo’s bid to take on big FX players
The third-largest US bank by assets plans to use big corporate flows to lure institutional clients
The bond venue using blockchain technology to plug leaks
LedgerEdge trading system aims to stop prices moving against users requesting quotes in larger sizes
Invesco bets on new tech to refine its FX trading
Home-grown tool will improve order routing and execution strategies, asset manager believes
Could private match-making sink public market?
Rise in internal hedging sparks debate over its threat to FX price discovery
Tradition to launch first SOFR order book
Streaming swap prices are a critical step to creating term rates for loan markets
CDS trading remains stubbornly human
Buy-siders sceptical of benefits of algo execution for credit derivatives
OTC FX options market gears up for faster electronification
Share of electronic trading remains low but host of factors promise to change that for good
CanDeal ideal: could Canada make a sea-change in e-trading?
E-trading firm aims to capture all Canada’s electronic fixed income trade, requiring a culture shift
UK snuffs out hopes of end to midpoint trading ban
Financial Conduct Authority resists calls to diverge from EU’s tick size regime
OTC trading platform of the year: Fenics GO
Risk Awards 2021: Hybrid protocol jumpstarts electronification of options block trading