New York-based fintech ClearBid Global Markets (CBGM) has inked a deal with broker-dealer Blaylock Van as part of a strategic growth agenda for its digital bond trading and data marketplace in the United States. CBGM operates a proprietary marketplace for the issuance, distribution, and management of fixed income securities for institutional and corporate clients. It… Read More >>
T. Rowe Price Deploys Customized Platform for Corporate Bonds
T. Rowe Price has a customized platform, a version of the Primary Bond Issuance (PBI) data management and workflow solution from Genesis Global for corporate bond deals that the asset manager’s fixed-income team can use to streamline the bond deal lifecycle, officials say. Genesis customized the PBI platform for T. Rowe Price to help the… Read More >>
CanDeal Adds Intraday Pricing to Evolution Platform
Institutional electronic marketplace CanDeal reports that it has integrated new intraday pricing for corporate bonds, dubbed Corporate Matrix Pricing, into its Evolution fixed income trading platform, which also facilitates Canadian corporate bond trading, officials say. The new service offers “pre-trade transparency into the pricing of individual bonds and the broader credit market throughout the day… Read More >>
BondWave Buys Bitvore’s Fixed Income Data Analytics Unit
BondWave, a fixed income technology solutions provider, will be expanding its fixed income data and analytics platform, dubbed Effi, via the acquisition of the fixed income data analytics business unit of Bitvore, an artificial intelligence (A.I.) company offering insights from unstructured data, officials say. BondWave will not be acquiring the rest of Bitvore and will… Read More >>
MarketAxess Buys LiquidityEdge to Sell Treasury Bonds
MarketAxess Holdings Inc. will expand its portfolio of traded products and open itself to more competitors with the recently announced $150 million acquisition of LiquidityEdge, a marketplace for U.S. Treasury trading. Already an operator of an electronic platform for trading fixed income securities, MarketAxess is purchasing LiquidityEdge via $100 million in cash and $50 million… Read More >>
Executive Shuffles Underway at Cboe & MarketAxess
Executive shuffles are underway for Cboe Global Markets, a holding company for some of the industry’s largest exchanges, and MarketAxess Holdings, which operates an electronic trading platform for fixed-income securities. In a major announcement, Cboe officials revealed that industry veteran Chris Concannon will be leaving his post as president and chief operating officer (COO), effective… Read More >>
Regulators Strike $26M Settlement with LPL Financial
The North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA) reports reaching a settlement with LPL Financial LLC and state securities regulators that would require the broker-dealer to “repurchase from investors certain securities sold since October 2006 and to pay civil penalties that could total more than $26 million.” According to a NASAA statement, the recent settlement is… Read More >>
Northern Trust via CDCC Directly Clears Canadian Derivatives
Northern Trust to Take Part in Expanded CDCC Program Northern Trust Canada officials have announced that they launched a direct clearing of cash and repurchase agreement (repo) trades for fixed income securities through an expansion of the clearing model of the Canadian Derivatives Clearing Corp. (CDCC), officials say. In addition, Northern Trust reports that it… Read More >>
