Cboe Europe has made big gains in its market share over the last two years – enjoying particular success in its lit orderbooks, which have grown from 15% of all lit trading in January 2021 to 28.1% in March 2023. But mo…
The consultation and call for evidence have long been called for from the crypto industry. It looks to start clarifying the government’s approach of making the country a fintech hub and adding value to being a UK-regist…
In the wake of the historic Bank of England interest rate hikes and the intense market volatility surrounding the British Pound in late 2022, institutional and professional traders across North America have been re-eval…
The BIS Triennial Central Bank Survey is the most comprehensive source of information on the size and structure of global over-the-counter (OTC) markets in foreign exchange (FX) and interest rate derivatives. The Survey…
Crypto innovators must be encouraged to stay in the U.S. , said the CEO of software developer Inca Digital. The Washington, D.C., company recently won a Defense Department contract to look into crypto security risks.
The secondary market is where investors buy and sell securities, such as stocks, bonds, and mutual funds. Trades take place on the secondary market between other investors and traders rather than from the companies that…
This product expansion includes an extensive library of both liquid and less liquid, hard-to-value instruments across sovereigns, investment grade and high yield corporates, emerging markets, money market, U.S. municipa…
Single Dealer Platforms (SDPs) are an alternative source of liquidity for execution algorithms, alongside exchanges and ATSs, and are quite popular because they offer liquidity at no commission to brokers. But the way S…
As the crypto market has continued its volatile ride over the past year, most market participants would agree that regulators needed to step in and tame what has been – and in many cases still is – the Wild West of cryp…
When brokers for institutional investors choose to route trades to market makers categorized as single dealer platforms they may not be getting the best prices for their clients, according to a new report from BestEx Re…
Since the Great Recession cross-border financial assets have grown nearly 60 percent. While cross-border bank lending has stayed relatively constant, cross-border portfolios and market-based finance have grown tremendou…
The landscape for wholesale gold trading is quite complex and constantly evolving. The three most important gold trading centres are the London OTC market, the US futures market and the Shanghai Gold Exchange (SGE). The…
One of the world's top nickel producers faces massive losses on its short positions after prices soared over $100,000 per tonne last week and forced the London Metal Exchange to halt nickel trading.
It was the mid-1990s, and, in lower Manhattan, a digital usurping was afoot. Computers had become integral to the workflows of technology-savvy traders and investors by then. But the broader financial industry was final…
Tradefeedr has launched a foreign exchange trading database platform that aims to connect the buy-side with brokers and banks to analyse execution analytics.
As summer starts, we thought it was a perfect time to update our “Intern’s Guide to the Market Structure Galaxy.” This short introduction has plenty of links for interns looking to take a deeper dive into the topics men…
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