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US exchange group hopes MarketAxess can help solve its fixed income puzzle but new ownership will not automatically draw liquidity
The tightest dollar SSA benchmark on record carried a second distinction: its paperwork never left one platform
Some evidence of green price advantage in secondary market, but not primary
Allowing machines to process loan information on a single standard would increase resilience, streamline workflows and support AI
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BNP Paribas will not receive any tax relief on its record-setting $8.97bn fine and will have to take the full hit to its second quarter results. As it digests the fine and one year ban from dollar clearing in its oil and gas business, the extent of the ordeal’s impact on BNP Paribas’s plans is being closely evaluated by market participants the world over. -
The Autorité des Marchés Financiers has launched a public consultation as it looks to strengthen regulation surrounding regulated markets and multi-lateral trading facilities.
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There were big increases in overall volume for Asia Pacific ex-Japan bonds, loans and equity in the first six months of 2014, with bonds and loans posting their biggest ever first half results. DCM rose by 9% from the same period in 2013, to $576bn, while loans jumped 16% to $243bn. ECM volumes were up 15% to $107bn, the highest level since the first half of 2011.
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The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has launched a study to “identify factors that may be hindering the development of sustainable securitization markets”, in a nod to the debate about whether its own proposed capital charges — among other things — are stifling the asset class.
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Markit is developing a service that will manage the exercise processes and provide electronic legal trade confirmation for fx options. The post-trade service will also help participants reduce operational risk and become more efficient in their management of fx options trades.
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Structures such as forward volatility agreements that capture lower volatility carry rolldown relative to outright short vol positions, but are protected from broad based moves in higher fx vols, are expected to gain traction in the continued low vol environment.
