Fixed income
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?
smartTrade eyes role as direct streaming linchpin
Vendor plans to tap growing demand for direct API trading solutions across asset classes
SFC lifts lid on new Hong Kong FIC trading platform
Regulator sheds light on venue that could rival Bloomberg, Tradeweb in CNH market
Offshore bonds to give China lifers a yield lifeline
Expansion of Bond Connect scheme will provide higher yielding assets for life insurers, and may ease concerns over asset-liability management
Equity trading volumes surge at Canadian, Singaporean banks
Seven of eight lenders post double-digit rise in 2025, early systemic data shows
Esma supervision proposals ensnare Bloomberg and Tradeweb
Derivatives and bonds venues would become subject to centralised supervision
Banks eye cost cuts ahead of RateStream Treasuries push
FX SpotStream’s move into rates seen as both fee-saver and potential boost to streaming execution
Aussie inflation traders call for linker buyback scheme
Firms fear liquidity bifurcation as market transitions to new indexation formula
Market data provider of the year: S&P Global Market Intelligence
S&P Global Market Intelligence has consistently met demands across Apac’s fast‑evolving capital markets, securing its win at the Risk Asia Awards 2025
Multi-asset investing: capturing diversification and alpha in a complex market
How multi-asset and cross-asset strategies are redefining performance and scale across institutional portfolios
Banks hope new axe platform will cut bond trading costs
Dealer-backed TP Icap venture aims to disrupt dominant trio of Bloomberg, MarketAxess and Tradeweb
Citi launches core inflation QIS
Custom indexes eliminate energy and food prices to ease trading of stickier inflation trends
Winds of change 2026: managing opportunities
Shifts in monetary and fiscal policy are reshaping fixed income markets
Market liquidity risk product of the year: Bloomberg
Bringing clarity and defensibility to liquidity risk in a fragmented fixed income market
How Bessent learned to stop worrying and love the T-bill
Short-dated issuance shows no signs of slowing. Some fear it could end badly.
Playing the yield: rates rev up structured products
Higher government bond yields and steeper forward curves fuel demand for new range of fixed income structures
All 14 G-Sib indicators hit records in 2024
Aggregate measures of systemic importance for top banks jumped to new highs, driven by sharp rises in underwriting activity and securities trading volumes
Pricing and analytics: fixed income – Quantifi
Quantifi delivers high-performance, transparent and adaptable pricing and risk analytics for fixed income and credit markets
Exchange of the year: CME Group
Risk Awards 2026: Price discovery remained remarkably resilient as volumes set records
The curious case of the missing volatility risk premium
Volatility investors will need to work harder and smarter to capture value, says Capstone
Talking Heads 2025: Who will buy Trump’s big, beautiful bonds?
Treasury issuance and hedge fund risks vex macro heavyweights