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News/Fixed income and OTC derivatives
Upcoming rules for bilateral clearing of OTC derivatives that will see a major increase in the number of collateral movements between market participants could see surging operational costs become "unsustainably burdensome", warns a new whitepaper.
23 February 2016
The rise of electronic trading in fixed income markets could lead to liquidity issues in times of stress, according to new research from the Bank for International Settlements (BIS).
22 January 2016
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) is buying Trayport, a trading technology firm focused on the European energy markets, from BGC Partners for $650 million in stock.
16 November 2015
Frankfurt has taken the upper hand in its battle with London to connect to China's capital markets following the announcement of two joint ventures that will link the respective exchanges of Germany and China.
29 October 2015
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association is working with a consortium of 18 buy-side and sell-side institutions to create an open source standard derivatives product identification system.
17 September 2015
Almost half of asset managers are still reliant on costly manual processes to manage complex derivatives creating a dangerous level of operational risk according to a report from buy-side systems vendor SimCorp.
26 August 2015
Project Neptune, an open standards network utility for pre-trade indications in bond markets, has gone live.
07 August 2015
The European Commission has finally green-lighted new rules that make it mandatory for certain over-the-counter (OTC) interest rate derivative contracts to be cleared through central counterparties.
06 August 2015
Bondcube, an electronic trading platform for corporate debt, has filed for liquidation just three months after going live.
23 July 2015
Almost all of Wall Street thinks that the blockchain could be applied to institutional capital markets and many firms are already actively reviewing the technology, according to research from Greenwich Associates.
A group of 11 industry associations have called on regulatory bodies to address the problems of poor data quality in derivatives reporting.
15 June 2015
Online retailer Overstock is to issue its first digital corporate bond using the technology that underlies cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin.
08 June 2015
Challenger banks will feature heavily in the upcoming Swift Business Forum in London. Craig Donaldson, CEO at Metro Bank UK, is joined by keynote speaker Sir David Clementi, ex-deputy governor of the Bank of England and chairman of Virgin Money.
27 March 2015
Some 57% of trading volume in European government bonds was executed electronically in 2014, up 14 percentage points since the onset of the global financial crisis according to a new report from Greenwich Associates.
26 March 2015
An ex-hedge fund manager who spent a decade trading interest rate derivatives is now jumping headfirst into the world of the blockchain with his newest venture, Clearmatics, a clearing and settlement technology for financial OTC markets based on a distributed ledger.
19 March 2015
Swedish capital markets technology vendor Cinnober has won EUR2.5 million in funding from the European Commission to develop a real-time risk margining, multi-asset clearing platform for the banking sector.
14 January 2015
Institutional investors around the world spent more than $12 billion on their trading desks last year as they raced to keep pace with the growing speed of electronic markets, changes in market structure and lower trading costs, according to a report from Greenwich Associates.
12 January 2015
The FIX trading community has agreed a set of best practices for use of the messaging protocol for the exchange of pre-trade information in the bond market, as banks and asset managers work together to overcome a liquidity shortage in fixed income trading.
25 November 2014
FIS has paired with Crédit Agricole Corporate & Investment Bank to launch a post-trade utility for the derivatives market.
04 November 2014
Open source risk management outfit OpenGamma has named Mark Beeston as its new chairman and appointed Cristobal Conde to its board of directors as it leans on heavyweight industry support to move the company forward.
27 October 2014
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