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Tradeweb extended its winning streak at the Financial News Awards for Excellence in Trading & Technology by winning the Best Fixed Income Trading Platform category for the fifth consecutive year.

One of the key aims of MiFID II is the extension of the transparency regime to bonds.

Regulations following the global financial crisis established central clearing as an important focus to reduce global systemic risk.

As the costs of central clearing, collateral reporting and margining continue to rise, firms will need to evolve their operating models, architecture and legacy collateral management solutions in order to remain competitive and protect revenues.

A regulatory rethink of bank leverage ratios could make the clearing business more attractive, reinvigorating competition and helping redistribute concentrated clearing flows and the associated risk.

The U.S. economy added 280,000 jobs in May, while combined total nonfarm employment for March and April was revised upwards by 32,000 job gains, data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed on June 5.

The five-year anniversary of the Dodd-Frank Act has inspired a number of industry experts to revisit the law’s impacts on the financial industry.

According to figures published by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics on May 8, total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 223,000 in April; job gains in February and March were revised downward by a combined 39,000.

While fragmentation of global swaps liquidity appears to be abating somewhat, trading on SEFs in the U.S. has been slow to evolve.

Global swaps reporting has been something of a disaster. And while ESMA’s recent efforts to clarify reporting requirements offer some guidance in the EU, the CFTC’s attempts to improve reporting go nowhere.