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Company update/Fixed income and OTC derivatives

Redline Trading adds OTC Markets Group data

OTC Markets Group Inc. (OTCQX: OTCM) today announced its Real-Time+ market data is now supported by Redline Trading Solutions, Inc., a leading provider of high performance market data and order execution systems for automated trading.

30 March 2016

Company update/Fixed income and OTC derivatives

EBS BrokerTec and ICAP launch sterling repo index rate

EBS BrokerTec, ICAP's market-leading electronic foreign exchange (FX) and fixed income business and ICAP Information Services (IIS), the information division of ICAP, announce today that they have launched the Sterling Repo Index Rate (£RIR).

30 March 2016

Company update/Fixed income and OTC derivatives

AFA Insurance implements VPD Fixed Income Attribution

AFA Insurance has gone into production with VPD Fixed Income Attribution, part of the VPD Risk & Performance suite of solutions.

30 March 2016

Company update/Fixed income and OTC derivatives

Regis-tr adapts for Swiss derivatives reporting requirements

Regis-tr, the European Trade Repository owned by Clearstream (Deutsche Börse) and Iberclear (BME), has developed services that support its customers in fulfilling their reporting requirements under the Swiss Financial Market infrastructure Act (FinfraG).

24 March 2016

Company update/Fixed income and OTC derivatives

TrueTPS provides trade reporting to CME repository

truePTS has entered into an agreement with CME Group Inc. (NASDAQ: CME) to integrate truePTS processing efficiencies with CME Group’s preferred global network of regulated trade repositories (TRs).

16 March 2016

Company update/Fixed income and OTC derivatives

Liquidnet fixed income dark pool exceees $1 billion of volume traded

Liquidnet, the global institutional trading network, today announced that their fixed income dark pool has exceeded $1B of volume traded, after just five months.

15 March 2016

Company update/Fixed income and OTC derivatives

S3 launches fixed income execution quality suite

S3 ("the Company"), a financial services software company that provides customized solutions to monitor and analyze trade execution, today announced the launch of its Fixed Income Execution Quality Suite ("the Suite").

15 March 2016

Company update/Fixed income and OTC derivatives

Portware appoints Chris Sorensen FX product manager

Portware, a FactSet company and the first and only global provider of multi-asset trade automation solutions powered by artificial intelligence, today announced the appointment of Chris Sorensen as FX Product Manager.

14 March 2016

Company update/Fixed income and OTC derivatives

Commerzbank signs up for OpenGamma margining service

Commerzbank has become the first sell-side institution to sign up for OpenGamma's new margining service.

10 March 2016

Company update/Fixed income and OTC derivatives

MarketAxess expands trading system to municipal bond market

MarketAxess Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: MKTX), the operator of a leading electronic trading platform for fixed-income securities, and the provider of market data and post-trade services for the global fixed-income markets, announced today it will expand its trading system in April to the $3.6 trillion municipal bond market.

10 March 2016

News/Fixed income and OTC derivatives

Former Thomson Reuters chief Glocer invests in Algomi

Former Thomson Reuters CEO Tom Glocer has invested in, and become a strategic advisor to, fixed income liquidity discovery start-up Algomi.

10 March 2016

Company update/Fixed income and OTC derivatives

Transficc trade platform launched

Steve Toland, Founder, today announced the launch of TransFICC, the London-based FinTech that provides technology to address the issues of fragmentation, market data throughput and MiFID regulation, for clients trading in the Fixed Income and Derivative markets.

10 March 2016

Company update/Fixed income and OTC derivatives

Fixed income veterans join OpenDoor Trading board of advisors

OpenDoor Trading, a platform designed to restore Off-The-Run Treasury (OFTR’s) and TIPS liquidity, has appointed John Brynjolfsson, formerly of Pimco, and Kenneth deRegt, formerly of Morgan Stanley, to its Board of Advisors.

07 March 2016

Company update/Fixed income and OTC derivatives

Tradeweb acquires Code Street

Tradeweb Markets, a leading builder and operator of global fixed income and derivatives marketplaces, announced today that it has acquired CodeStreet LLC, a leader in data-driven trade identification and workflow management software development.

02 March 2016

Company update/Fixed income and OTC derivatives

Baymarkets takes on SIX x-clear’s Clara clearing platform

SIX x-clear Ltd and Baymarkets are pleased to announce that they have entered into an agreement whereby the support, maintenance and continued development of the Clara clearing system has been taken on by Baymarkets.

02 March 2016

Company update/Fixed income and OTC derivatives

ICE agrees to buy two data units from McGraw Hill

Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), a leading operator of global exchanges, clearing houses and data services, announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Standard & Poors Securities Evaluations, Inc. (SPSE), a leading provider of fixed income evaluated pricing, and Credit Market Analysis (CMA), a leading provider of independent data for the over-the-counter (OTC) markets, two assets under the S&P Global Market Intelligence business unit, from McGraw Hill Financial (NYSE (NYX): MHFI).

01 March 2016

Company update/Fixed income and OTC derivatives

EU adopts new rules on central clearing for credit derivatives

The European Commission has adopted a new set of rules that requires certain over-the-counter (OTC) credit derivative contracts to be cleared through central counterparties (CCPs).

01 March 2016

Company update/Fixed income and OTC derivatives

NSD launches PVP settlement service

National Settlement Depository (NSD), Russia’s central securities depository, has launched a new service allowing to process client cross-currency settlements – payment versus payment (PVP-1).

01 March 2016

News/Fixed income and OTC derivatives

Korea Exchange joins blockchain gold rush

The Korea Exchange is looking to use distributed ledger technology for a new OTC trading platform.

01 March 2016

Company update/Fixed income and OTC derivatives

Singapore Exchange goes live with Millennium PostTrade

MillenniumIT, London Stock Exchange Group’s proprietary technology business, today announces that it has successfully implemented its Millennium PostTrade platform to support SGX’s Central Depository Pte. Limited’s (CDP) business.

24 February 2016