Corporates
Algomi Pivots Offering Away from Honeycomb to Alfa
Usman Khan sits down with WatersTechnology to discuss how the vendor will look to change course in 2019 and focus on the development of the Alfa platform.
Smartkarma, CorpXSasia Partner on Corporate Access, Research
Independent research provider Smartkarma and corporate access provider CorpXSasia plan to create larger corporate access events together.
Bond Trading Takes Steps to Resolve Voice and Screen Conflict
With Mifid II's deadline in the rear-view mirror, Hamad Ali gives a "State of the Union" for the fixed-income market and electronic trading platforms.
Bloomberg Unleashes 'Kungfu' on Chinese Dollar Bond Market
The data provider will continue developing new tools and will also be rolling out analytics tools for the offshore dollar Chinese credit market.
ION's Openlink Acquisition Shows Deeper Strategic Moves at Work
The Openlink deal is the latest in a string of acquisitions by ION as it consolidates power in treasury, derivatives and commodities, with the help of Carlyle Group.
AFTAs 2017: Most Innovative Third-Party Technology Vendor—Front Office—Overbond
Front-office technology platforms might be working hard to address demands for greater holistic functionality, but when there’s a specific challenge to tackle—the digitization of the corporate and government bond market, for example—precise solutions are…
Not Everyone’s a Convert for Fixed Income’s Move to Screen
Panelists at Risk USA discussed electronification’s slow advancement in fixed income, and debated just how necessary it is.
Algomi to Grow Offering After S&P Investment
This is the third partnership Algomi has formed over the last six months. It’s the second minority investment S&P has made this year.
Swift Targets Interbank Balances with Expanded Blockchain Pilot
Swift expands participants in project to examine blockchain's potential for making interbank payments more transparent
Denmark Unveils its Fintech 'Hygge'
Could Denmark compete London as Europe's biggest fintech hub?
Tradeweb’s Bruner Discusses New All-to-All Corporate Bond Trading Platform
Tradeweb enters the all-to-all space, joining companies like MarketAxess, Liquidnet and Trumid.
DelphX Negotiation Tool Allows Dealers to Quote Corporate Bonds Held by Investors
The tool allows dealers to negotiate future transactions that allow them to take advantage of bond inventories held by investors.
TradingScreen, Long-Only AMs Launch Corporates Crossing Network
Trading venue is the latest to join bonds fray.
Icap to Launch Corporates 'Scrapbook' with Interactive Data Pricing
New service operated by BrokerTec MTF
DelphX Plans Expansion, Data on Quandl
Bond trading venue operator DelphX plans to expand its Mav=n (Market-Adjusted Value per congruent Nexus) pricing service, to provide users with fair value prices for SEC Rule 144A private placements, asset-backed and mortgage backed securities, and…
Tradeweb Enters US Corporates Fracas with New Platform
Fixed income specialist looks to shake up market at an "inflection point"
Infront Expands Credit Content to Boost Cross-Asset Ambitions
Norwegian data vendor Infront has added corporate bond data and analytics to its Infront Plus market data terminal, in response to increased demand for these instruments following the 2008 financial crisis.
Conning Turns to Markit for Depth and Scope of Corporates Pricing
Conning, an $82 billion Hartford, Conn.-based global asset manager, holds a majority of its assets, much of them on behalf of insurance clients, in bonds. In switching to Markit's pricing service, Conning's chief data officer Brian Baczyk says the…
DelphX Delves into Credit Trading via SunGard Connectivity
Calling the SunGard Global Network (SGN) "the gorilla of equity order routing," bond trading venue operator DelphX announced that it will utilize SGN's FIX connectivity as the plumbing for its new CentralX alternative trading system (ATS).
E-Trading Corporate Bonds: Act Two?
In part one of his two-part feature on the electronic trading of corporate bonds, Jake Thomases traveled back in time to understand why an early explosion of credit trading platforms disappeared almost as soon as it arrived. In part two, he asks whether…
The Lost Generation of Corporate Bond Platforms
Corporate bonds today remain among the most manual instruments to trade. But it did not have to be this way. Starting as far back as the late 1990s, attempts have been made to automate institutional credit trading. In part one of this two-part feature,…
