European Commission to launch public consultation on ways to improve market functioning Source: The Wall Street Journal The European Commission wants answers to an intriguing question: Why is it becoming harder for people to trade corporate bonds, even though companies are issuing more of them? The commission—the executive arm of the European Union—plans to launch a…
US exchanges operator, Intercontinental Exchange, to buy fixed income trading platform BondPoint from Virtu Financial in $400m deal. Source: Financial Times Intercontinental Exchange, the US exchanges operator, has underscored its designs on the corporate bond market by agreeing to buy fixed income trading platform BondPoint from Virtu Financial for $400m in cash. ICE beat competition from…
With trading volumes for US corporate bonds up
