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Many of us have witnessed first-hand how new technologies have impacted financial markets considerably in recent years. Bond trading has been no exception. Machine learning and improvements in system connectivity are just an example of the technologies that could potentially impact the lifecycle of the bond market, from issuance through to trading and settlement.

Chris Bruner, Head of Credit Product at Tradeweb, discusses how to better leverage trading networks as electronifiction of the credit market continues to evolve.

Launched in July last year, the primary aim of Bond Connect was to provide international investment institutions with a more attractive and efficient access channel to the world’s third largest bond market. As well as facilitating existing demand for Chinese bonds, it would stimulate new inflows by meeting a key criterion for their inclusion in international indices. As a pioneer of electronic markets for 20 years – and both a design partner and operator of the first trading platform to link to Bond Connect – we at Tradeweb believe it is well positioned to meet these objectives.

Activity on the Tradeweb European-listed ETF marketplace showed no signs of slowing down in June, as notional volume surpassed €23 billion for the second time on record.

Government bond yields dropped in May against a background of heightened market volatility and geopolitical turmoil.

The following data is derived from trading activity on the Tradeweb European-listed ETF platform.

2017 proved to be the year the Greek government bond market roared back to life

It is an exciting time for us at Tradeweb, winning two awards within 24 hours – “Fixed Income Trading Platform of the Year” at the FOW and Global Investor Asia Capital Markets Awards 2017 and “SEF Compression/Compaction Service of the Year” at the GlobalCapital Global Derivatives Awards 2017.

Speaking at the ECB Forum in Sintra on June 27, president Mario Draghi’s remark that “the threat of deflation is gone” was perceived to herald the withdrawal of monetary stimulus by the central bank.

The following data is derived from trading activity on the Tradeweb European-listed ETF platform.