Americas Archive

MarketAxess has said its deal with BlackRock's Aladdin Trading Network to develop a platform for the US$14 trillion US credit market will increase the market's focus on a single set of open-platform solutions despite a likely increase in competing venues. read more>

Tuesday's Twitter-inspired mini-crash confirmed the US equity market's vulnerability to misinformation in the social media age, but a rapid rebound suggested the resilience of trading systems, industry experts have stated. read more>

Bloomberg's legal action against the Commodity Futures Trading Commission this week will not constrain the growth of swap futures, experts have warned. read more>

A breakdown in the consensus over market structure has left investors confused in conditions of “near savagery” as they scour the margins for advantage, according to California-based Jones Trading. read more>

Barclays claims the automated capital commitment feature launched this week for its US clients will "shift the industry" towards hybrid alternatives to electronic trading. read more>

Barclays has introduced a 'toxicity framework' to its LX dark pool that it claims makes predatory trading easier to identify. read more>

Bloomberg today qualified its earlier announcement that it would set up a futures exchange if the Commodity Futures Trading Commission failed to amend an "arbitrary and capricious" rule it says penalises OTC swaps at the expense of futures trades. read more>

Asset managers' reliance on advice from third-party vendors and clearing brokers as they prepare for new swaps reporting and trading regimes could lead to significant compliance delays, an expert has warned. read more>

Deutsche Börse-owned International Securities Exchange will launch its second US options exchange before the end of Q2, the company said yesterday. read more>

Dark trading in Canada is set to recover slightly over the next year, as market participants acclimatise to dark pool rules introduced last year, according to a new TABB report. read more>