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SOFR Trading Surged at Year End
By Louie Woodall
January 4, 2021, Risk
The volume of repo trades used to inform the secured overnight funding rate (SOFR) hit $1.1 trillion on the last day of 2020, …
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“Open questions” remain on SONIA options – panel
By Wendy Lisney
October 15, 2020, Global Investor Group
Trading activity in Sterling Overnight Index Average (SONIA) options is set to lag futures trading volumes until liquidity builds, while open …

China is simplifying access to its bond market. It’s about time, too
By Eugene Cheung
October 1, 2020, South China Morning Post
For much of 2020, addressing the Covid-19 pandemic has been the main focus for governments across the world, with reforms …

Electronic trading facing new challenges amid pandemic
By Li Renn Tsai
September 25, 2020, The Asset
Asian countries have not escaped the economic fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic, despite early lockdowns, closed borders, and track and trace …

August trading volumes in Europe plummet in quietest month of MiFID II era
By Hayley McDowell
September 15, 2020, The Trade
Last month was the quietest period for equities trading volumes in Europe since MiFID II was introduced in January 2018, statistics from …
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Portfolio trading continues to take hold in fixed income markets
By Hayley McDowell
June 3, 2020, The Trade
Fixed income traders are increasingly engaging with portfolio trading to manage portfolios, particularly during the recent volatility due to the COVID-19 crisis.…
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Post-Flash Crash Fixes Bolstered Markets During Coronavirus Selloff
By Alexander Osipovich
May 5, 2020, The Wall Street Journal
A decade ago, the flash crash of May 6, 2010, rocked markets. What followed was a broad effort by regulators …
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Traders Question Value of Stock Market Circuit Breakers
By Alexander Osipovich
March 16, 2020, The Wall Street Journal
Decades of little-noticed efforts to build guardrails for wild market moves have gotten a rare workout in recent days as …
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‘Intense’ trading sends exchange volumes to record
By Philip Stafford and Richard Henderson
March 3, 2020, Financial Times
Trading volumes on stock and futures exchanges surged in February after fears over the impact of the spreading coronavirus …
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Next for Electronic Trading: Two Big Trends, One Shared Path
By Lee Olesky CEO, Tradeweb Markets
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While electronic trading has been growing steadily since the late 1990s, for many products it has remained a stubbornly small …