In The News

The Desk: In September, overall trading in U.S. rates rose 1% year-over-year, standing at 59% of volumes, while the average daily notional volume stood at US$988 billion, up 35% year-over-year, Coalition Greenwich noted in its October Data Spotlight...

Traders: Derivatives market participants have renewed their focus on capital and margin optimization in response to the high cost of capital and the regulatory push toward central clearing, according to Coalition Greenwich. “Netting of futures and...

The Full FX: A new report from Coalition Greenwich finds that margin optimisation is once again a big feature of market participants’ thinking, including a refocus on how and where they trade interest rates products, as well as where they clear them...

Global Trading: “I don’t think the new Texas Stock Exchange has articulated a business case for the benefits to the trading community,” says Jesse Forster, senior analyst for market structure and technology at Coalition Greenwich. “We’ve had a few...

The Desk: There has been a noted proportional increase in electronification of U.S. credit trading, as tracked by Coalition Greenwich. However, metrics around European trading found via MarketAxess’s CP+ pricing service and TraX market activity...

Financial Times: Jane Street's gross trading revenues of $21.9bn were equivalent to roughly one-seventh of the combined equity, bond, currency and commodity trading revenues of all the dozen major global investment banks last year, according to...

Finance Feeds: According to Coalition Greenwich, electronic trading now accounts for 42% of U.S. and 44% of European equity market commissions.

The Desk: “In theory, the European version is easier, because these broad rules can be created that apply across markets,” notes Kevin McPartland.

Markets Media: “Corporate and investment banks are balancing the need to grow their business with the need to invest in systems to create efficiencies through automation that enhance the client experience and accommodate new regulations,” says...

Traders: A more widespread adoption of Application Programming Interface (API) technology among financial institutions could be right around the corner. A recent research study with Coalition Greenwich and SIX found that most firms now rely on two...