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Following lengthy negotiations between Greece’s new government and eurozone finance ministers, a four-month extension of the country’s bailout program was agreed on February 20.

Tradeweb recently issued the third annual Year-End Data Points, which discusses our Top Observations in the Global Fixed Income Markets for 2014.

Plunging oil prices and international sanctions continued to take their toll on Russia’s economy in December.

Despite record US equity prices and an improving economy, the underlying theme of 2014 was one of disappointment – in the levels of liquidity in most markets, in the spreads that market-makers were seeing, in the rising cost of being a market-maker, and in the ability of regulators worldwide to get their acts together.

Tradeweb scooped the Best ETF Trading Platform for Institutional Investors category in this year’s ETF Risk European rankings.

In his speech at the SEFCON V Conference, CFTC Chairman Timothy Massad outlined the current and future state of affairs regarding swaps trading on regulated platforms.

Earlier in October, I predicted that, just as the CDS market moved to standardized contracts a few years ago, the day would come when the interest rate market would move to a standardized world, namely in the form of Market Agreed Coupon contracts, or MAC.

We launched the Tradeweb U.S. Corporate Bond Marketplace on Wednesday, the first phase of a total credit solution for trading corporate bonds efficiently.

Just weeks before swaps market participants are anticipating long-delayed SEF rules for swaps trading, news has emerged that regulators at the CFTC are considering modifying one of the cornerstones of the rules: the requirement that investors solicit a minimum of five quotes in order to transact.

In my recent blog, USD MAC Swaps: A Closer Look, I noted that once the September roll into the December contract was complete, the cumulative volume of this would provide an interesting in-sight into how large the USD MAC Swap market really is. In this article, I will look to establish this.