Compagnie Financiere Tradition
Energy credit optimisers vie to become headline act
Competing initiatives may dilute ‘network effect’ as race to fill void left by TP Icap intensifies
Race to cash in on term Sonia is filled with twists
Pending merger and FCA’s effort to create synthetic Libor rates could sway outcome
Sonia term rate contenders tested by market mayhem
Regulator-proposed quote approach falters as dealers pull swap prices from screens
Ice swap rate adds RFQ data; adopts Sonia
Industry backs overhaul of term swap rate to curb non-publication and hasten Libor switch
CFTC set to eliminate post-trade name give-up
Practice has been a mainstay of Sef trading but chairman Tarbert wants it gone
Brexit nudges Trad-X swaps service to Paris
London loses out on planned dealer-to-client Clob for OTC euro interest rate swaps
Evolution or extinction: Ice swap rate’s post-Libor quandary
Thin liquidity in SOFR swaps imperils reference rate for $40 trillion swaptions market
A buy-side swaps order book – with a difference
First client joins Trad-X Clob as dealers get nervy about large-scale RFQs
Sef reforms could distort new, sounder benchmark rates
Tradition’s Fitzpatrick warns that more ways of trading swaps could dent progress made on fixings
Smooth operator: Japan looks to ease into electronic trading
JFSA aims to avoid a repeat of Sef mandate liquidity fracture
Tradition's Mike Anderson cheerful despite headwinds for energy brokers
Regulatory change and tough market conditions are creating deep uncertainty for energy brokers. But Tradition’s Mike Anderson remains optimistic about the business, he tells Stella Farrington
People: Citi axes role of Asia structured products head
Harold Kim mulling other opportunities at the bank; Cantor Fitzgerald expands fixed income sales team; StanChart hires head of global investor coverage; Grundmann joins JP Morgan; DiBacco gets new role at Getco; RBC Investor Services CEO bids farewell
GFI may buy an exchange, says Gooch
Interdealer broker GFI may follow in the footsteps of Icap and acquire an exchange, says GFI Group chief executive
Avatar Capital adds CCDS brokerage team
Broker-dealer hires former Icap credit hybrids team
Tradition COO to retire
David Pinchin will retire from his position as chief operating officer (COO) for the Swiss brokerage Compagnie Financiere Tradition (CFT) from August 31.