Two articles caught our eye over the last week, which highlight how the Fixed Income market continues to evolve. An article in The Economist highlighted the growth of all-to-all e-trading in corporate bonds and Markets Media published a comment piece about the growth of Market Data in APAC.
Sobia Hamid at The Desk reports that the increase in Fixed Income e-trading is driving the growth of secure connectivity channels.
Corporate Bonds - Under MiFID II there will still be phone calls, but the calls will end when it comes to market-making. If a trade is deemed Large in Size or Size Specific to Instrument Thresholds, clients will hear, "Meet me on a venue".
IPC and TransFICC are now collaborating to provide over 6,000 market participants in IPC’s Fixed Income Marketplace with secure access to the production and UAT environments of TransFICC's high performance API.
"...the financial industry is going through a generational change in market structure due to deleveraging, regulation and zero tolerance of compliance failures." - Markets Media interviews Mark Beeston, from Illuminate Financial Management.
Steve is pitching TransFICC again....this time to the FinTech Shark Tank in Boston
Yesterday, Steve attended a busy EMEA FIX Trading Conference. Unsurprisingly, discussions were dominated by MiFID II, with most panels highlighting how the structure of Fixed Income and Derivatives markets will change as a response to regulation.
Thomas Thees from CastleOak Securities speaks with Larry Tabb - We have now reached the point where technology supports both the sell- and buy-side being price makers. Thees discusses the emergence of all-to-all marketplaces, the trader’s responsibility to achieve best execution, and the value of data.
TransFICC has opened a New York office and hired Sean Murphy, Bo-Yun Liu and Khagay Nagdimov.
We were delighted to be win 'Trading Initiative of the Year' at the Financial News Excellence in Trading & Tech Awards 2023
Steve speaks with The Desk about all things tech - managing fragmentation, automating workflows, the need for speed, scalability on demand, modular tech and what's next in the evolution of the market.
TransFICC has closed a Series A extension for $17 million. Led by AlbionVC, all existing institutional shareholders took part in this investment round, which follows the original Series A for $7.8 million, announced in April 2020.
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Press Release - TransFICC has announced a new initiative to develop a Consolidated Tape (CT) for Fixed Income. As part of this initiative, TransFICC has developed a production ready pilot, for Banks, Asset Managers and Regulators to test.
Steve speaks with Kiays Khalil from The TRADE News about the need for a Consolidated Tape in Fixed Income.
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Like all companies, lockdown has impacted the way we work at TransFICC. We have always championed Extreme Programming as our methodology of choice, so when we decided to close the office at the start of March, this raised some issues around how we would operate with everyone working remotely.
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TransFICC has closed its Series A investment round for £5.75 million. Led by AlbionVC, it included new strategic investments from ING Ventures and HSBC. The new investors join existing shareholders, Citi, Illuminate Financial, Main Incubator (the R&D unit of Commerzbank Group) and The FinLab.