SIX, an exchanges and financial data company, reports that it has acquired a majority stake in FactEntry, a fixed income data and solutions vendor, as a way for SIX to strengthen its cross-asset data offerings for the front-, middle-, and back-office. The majority stake acquisition closed on March 27, 2024, and financial terms and deal… Read More >>
ICE Expands Fixed Income Services & More News
ICE Best Execution Platform Gets a Makeover Officials at Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (ICE) report that the exchanges and technology company is doubling its coverage of fixed income instruments via improvements to the ICE Best Execution Service platform. The enhancements encompass pre-trade analysis, and front-, middle- and back-office services, and will help the ICE platform manage… Read More >>
Gensler Pushes for Bond Trading Ops Overhaul
SEC Chair Gary Gensler is calling for a revamp of operations for U.S. fixed income markets — representing $53 trillion in securities — and is calling for price transparency, faster bond reporting, and more transparent post-trade processes, arguing that a new openness would improve counterparty risk management, bolster evaluations of trade execution quality, and increase… Read More >>
Corporate Actions Ops Are Stuck in Manual: Survey
But Firms Want Real-Time Corporate Actions Data A new report based on survey results reveals that slightly more than “three-quarters of respondents (78 percent) still process part of their corporate actions manually, with 40 percent processing more than half of their corporate actions in this way,” according to research sponsored by data and infrastructure services… Read More >>
DTCC Fights Fragmented Clearing for Treasuries
Fragmented clearing for the U.S. Treasury market is on the minds of those at the DTCC, the industry’s major post-trade services and infrastructure provider, and they have released a white paper that they hope will spark a discussion about this contentious issue. There is even a suggestion that there might be a need for a… Read More >>
Citi & BofA Jointly Building Fixed Income Platform
New Platform to Target CLOs, Syndicated Loans First Citi and Bank of America are collaborating on “a next generation trading, data and analytics platform” for fixed income markets that will be a more accessible, transparent, and efficient marketplace for the industry, according to bank officials. The banks hope their combined effort will yield a multi-dealer… Read More >>
SimCorp & Intellibonds Aim A.I. at Portfolio Construction
Investment management systems vendor SimCorp and fixed income analytics specialist IntelliBonds are partnering to offer front-office portfolio management teams alpha generation capabilities that exploit cutting-edge technologies and offer a path to system consolidation, officials say. The partnership will integrate cloud-based workflows that are augmented by artificial intelligence (A.I.) technologies as the way to bolster productivity… Read More >>
BrokerTec & triResolve Push to Advance Repo Automation
Fixed income electronic trading platform BrokerTec has joined forces with derivatives infrastructure services vendor TriOptima to offer more automation across the mostly manual lifecycle of a repo trade, officials say. The intention is to improve the repo trade workflow, Raf Pritchard, head of triResolve at CME Group, tells FTF News. The triResolve group is part… Read More >>
Bond.One Pioneers Debt Origination via DLT
A fixed income security-issuance and administrative services provider, Bond.One, has just launched a private placement bond from the McCarton Foundation that Bond.One says is an industry first — debt origination via a platform that exploits distributed ledger technology (DLT). Bond.One officials tell FTF News that they hope that this first step will pave the way… Read More >>
Deciphering Traders’ Jargon for Criminal Intent: Q&A
(Editor’s note: When the news hit that Standard Chartered had been fined $40 million via foreign exchange (FX) trading rigging charges, Juan Diego Martin, chief operating officer (COO) of Fonetic, reached out to FTF News to express his opinion about the matter. “Events like today show that missing any nefarious trader communications is no longer… Read More >>
