Fixed Income Trading

Knight Capital Group, the trade execution and asset management services provider, has acquired institutional fixed income broker-dealer Libertas Holdings.

MTS Group, a pan-European electronic trading platform for government bonds, has signed an agreement with the Brazilian Ministry of Finance for the creation of an electronic market dedicated to the trading of local currency sovereign securities issued by the Federative Republic of Brazil.

LiquidityHub, an aggregator of liquidity and market data designed to support electronic trading in the fixed-income market, has closed down only five months after it was launched.

ICAP, an interdealer broker, says the average daily electronic broking volumes in its fixed-income products reached record levels in February. Daily fixed-income volumes traded on ICAP's BrokerTec platform - including US Treasury products, EU repo and US repo - reached $692.8 billion in February, 23 per cent higher than a year previously.

ICAP, an interdealer broker, says the average daily electronic broking volumes in its fixed-income products reached record levels in February.

Boston-based investment management firm Eaton Vance has selected CDO Software's CDO Director and CDO Scheduler management tools to help manage its synthetic CDO business.

Caplin Systems, a real-time web company, has announced that MarketAxess Holdings, the operator of an electronic trading platform for U.S.

Domestic bond markets are booming across Asia ex-Japan, according to a study by research and consulting firm Greenwich Associates.

ICAP, an interdealer broker, says it experienced record transaction volume across its electronic broking platforms in 2007.

Broadridge Financial Solutions, a provider of technology-based outsourcing solutions to the financial services industry, launched Aspire Trader for the fixed- income markets on Monday.