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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.

Scissors and US dollar

Dealers involved in the launch of a new credit trading platform are pinning a lot on its approaching debut. Rather than inviting dealers to quote prices, the new service will attempt to match sell- and buy-side participants that have offsetting interests—an unusual approach that banks hope will enable the venture to snatch market share from a trio of well-established incumbents.

If it works, dealers will have a lower-cost alternative to those incumbents—Bloomberg, MarketAxess and Tradeweb. That

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‘Vibe coding is burning us out’

Vibe coding is rapidly spreading throughout the capital markets, and some are unhappy about it, while others believe the genie is out of the bottle. Engineers spoken to for this story share some choice words—and several expletives—about this new form of coding.

DTCC dives into public cloud

The clearing house has begun migrating its equities clearing and settlement systems to AWS, while its tokenization systems have migrated to Microsoft Azure ahead of their launch this fall.

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