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It is an exciting time for us at Tradeweb, winning two awards within 24 hours – “Fixed Income Trading Platform of the Year” at the FOW and Global Investor Asia Capital Markets Awards 2017 and “SEF Compression/Compaction Service of the Year” at the GlobalCapital Global Derivatives Awards 2017.

This week, the members of the Electronic Debt Markets Association (EDMA Europe) highlighted a potentially critical unintended consequence of MiFID II / MiFIR rules in a joint letter – available in full below - to the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), as well as members of the European Parliament and European Commission.

One of the key aims of MiFID II is the extension of the transparency regime to bonds.

Tucked away in Article 27 of MiFID 2 is a potentially disruptive requirement – the ‘Obligation to execute orders on terms most favorable to the client.’

TIPS activity increased to 6.5% of U.S. Government Bond Trading, with index-linked bond (ILB) trading representing 6.3% of European Government Bond trades on Tradeweb

Global government bonds suffered a sell-off in September amid a bevy of central bank policy decisions, key economic data releases, and continued geopolitical uncertainty.

Today Tradeweb facilitated the first cleared repo transaction using LCH’s new RepoClear service, and is the only trading venue that has institutional investors trading via the clearing house.

The swaps transparency changes driven by MiFID II are meant to establish a level playing field between trading venues so that price discovery of a particular financial instrument is not impaired by fragmentation on liquidity.

New research claims financial institutions must achieve a global view of clients to ensure cross-border compliance

Government bond yields dropped across Europe over the course of a particularly volatile October.