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Tradeweb offers institutional investors access to a consolidated pool of liquidity for the entire range of U.S. and European-listed ETFs. Adriano Pace, managing director for equity derivatives at the firm, reports that the request-for-quote (RFQ) platform saw activity in European ETFs reach EUR165 billion in 2017, an increase of 23 per cent on the previous year.

Beverly Chandler of etfexpress reports that trading activity on the Tradeweb European-listed ETF marketplace reached a record-breaking EUR 17.744 billion in May, narrowly beating the platform's previous strongest performance in March 2017.

Risk's Sam Wilkes investigates how the UK's departure from EU markets could derail new European trading and transparency rules under MiFID II, including views from Simon Maisey, managing director and global head of business development at Tradeweb.

Tim Cave of Financial News reports on the launch of the Electronic Debt Markets Association Europe (EDMA Europe), which was created to represent the interests of companies whose primary business is the operation of regulated electronic fixed income trading venues in Europe.

Gabriel Suprise of GlobalCapital reports on the A View From the Top: The New Trading Landscape panel at the recent Tabb Forum Fixed Income conference, and quotes Tradeweb CEO, Lee Olesky on improvements that e-trading has brought to the derivatives marketplace such as an increase in matched trades and efficient sourcing of capital.

Tradeweb Markets' swap execution facilities (TW SEF and DW SEF) were among a list of venues that recently received approval for permanent registration from the CFTC. Philip Stafford and Joe Rennison of the Financial Times report on the regulations that spurred the launch of these platforms, and discuss a recent study by the Bank of England, which found that the costs of trading U.S. dollar swaps on SEFs have fallen since the launch of these platforms.

Tracy Alloway and Michael Mackenzie of the Financial Times report on the new Tradeweb corporate bond platform which was initially rolled out in July and recently expanded to allow more market participants to trade investment grade corporate debt.

Swaps trading on SEFs is about to become mandatory, and the industry is readying for a major change in activity. Will Rhode from TABB Group interviews Tradeweb CEO, Lee Olesky at TabbFORUM’s “Breaking Rates” fixed income conference, in a video discussing the upcoming big bang around derivatives trading on SEFs.

Risk Magazine named Tradeweb the OTC Trading Platform of the Year as part of the Risk Awards 2014. In a feature article for the awards, Tradeweb CEO, Lee Olesky discusses the firm’s swap execution facilities (SEFs) and expectations for SEF trading volumes in 2014 once the trading mandate is in place.

Mike Kentz of the International Financing Review reports on the October 2 swap execution facility launch, and the issues that the industry is working through as market participants transition to trading on these platforms.