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Portfolio trading vs RFQ: Understanding transaction costs in US investment-grade bonds
The MarketAxess research team explores how such factors as order size, liquidity profiles and associated costs determine whether a portfolio trade or an RFQ list trade is the optimal choice.
Recent volatility highlights tech’s vital role in fixed income pricing
MarketAxess’ Julien Alexandre discusses how cutting-edge technology is transforming pricing and execution in the fixed income market amid periodic bouts of volatility
This Week: ICE Bonds and MarketAxess plan to connect liquidity networks, TS Imagine, Bloomberg, and more
A summary of the latest financial technology news.
Octaura preps for CLO trading launch
The consortium-born loan trading platform is adding tech partners and new protocols as it looks to launch CLO trading later this year.
This Week: MSCI, Tradeweb, FactSet, LTX, MarketAxess, TS Imagine, and more
A summary of the latest financial technology news.
MarketAxess builds strategy around X-Pro
MarketAxess profits were down in Q1, but revenues were up and automation volume hit a record $94 billion.
People Moves: Etrading Software, MarketAxess, Trumid, Nasdaq, and more
A look at the past month’s people moves in the capital markets technology and data space, including Matthijs Geneste (pictured), who will head up EU regulatory data services for Etrading Software.
This Week: Nice Actimize, S&P Global, MarketAxess, Cboe, and more
A summary of the latest financial technology news.
MarketAxess sees returns from new trading tools
Recently added portfolio trading, automation, and algo offerings drove the vendor’s revenue growth in Q4 2023.
One step forward, two steps back—European regulation grapples with the same old problems
Stop me if you've heard this one before...
Fixed income in 2023: Mergers, modernization, and mysteries, oh my!
Between tech revolutions, secret EMSs and electronified bonds, the fixed-income market saw major advancements over the last 12 months
Buy side unconvinced of corporate bond streaming benefits
Managers see limited utility of streamed prices in the once OTC-only asset class.
What is Aladdin Trader? BlackRock’s fixed-income tool still a mystery
Sources tell WatersTechnology that Aladdin Trader will expand on the platform’s ‘limited’ execution functionality.
Better tech brings threat of two-speed trading in fixed income
Smaller asset managers may get left behind as automation allows the big players to prosper.
Broadridge’s LTX looks to GenAI as it competes for market share
LTX has pinned its hopes of breaking into the fixed-income market on innovative use of AI. But how successful has its approach been, and what is it up against?
Waters Wrap: Reading the fixed-income tea leaves
A lot gets made about how much fixed income has been electronified. Anthony says that “percentage” ignores the important technological evolutions and strategic shifts being made by the vendor community.
Tradeweb turns attention to automating larger trades in credit
CEO: “In 2023, as we’re entering 2024, there are still clients that pick up the phone and do trades like it’s 1994.”
For MarketAxess, portfolio trading buoys flat revenue in Q3
The vendor is betting on new platforms like X-Pro and Adaptive Auto-X, which helped forge a record quarter for platform usage.
This Week: Broadridge/UBS, Bloomberg, MarketAxess, ICE, and more
A summary of the latest financial technology news.
Locking down the lifecycle: Trading Technologies turns to analytics and TCA in latest acquisition
The tech provider gains TCA, analytics, and algo optimization tools as established vendors vie to build more comprehensive platforms.