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Asia’s adoption of new tools and processes has gained significant momentum, with increased automation now a primary focus for many financial firms. Paul Worthy, head of Japan at Tradeweb, explores how this change has come about, and how firms can use the Tradeweb Automated Intelligent Execution tool to streamline and automate their workflows.

As artificial intelligence matures, it is reducing the amount of art and increasing the amount of science in illiquid bond pricing. Markets Media speaks with Chris Bruner, managing director and head of US Credit at Tradeweb, regarding the firm’s Automated Intelligent Execution capabilities.

Until recently, U.S. corporate bond investors have faced a unique and costly set of challenges due to the spread-based convention of most investment grade credit trading. Historically, this has meant that any purchase (sale) of a corporate bond on spread needs to be accompanied with the sale (purchase) of a U.S. Treasury to offset the interest rate risk inherent in the corporate bond. With traditional line by line workflow, this manual spotting process is clunky and costly at best.

A year ago, the coronavirus crisis nearly shuttered global markets. Volatility reigned and liquidity dried up as markets went full risk-off. Just over a decade after the calamitous Great Recession, another long and painful dislocation in the financial markets seemed inescapable as investors surveyed the wreckage wrought by March 2020.

As we begin 2023, I wanted to take a moment to recap last year across Tradeweb's Global Institutional Equities marketplace, which includes trading in ETFs, equity derivatives, convertible bonds, ADRs and single stocks.

Weekly Italian bond trading volumes surpassed their previous record set in 2011

Activity on the Tradeweb European-listed ETF marketplace remained strong in April.

Last week’s first SEC Fixed Income Market Structure Advisory Committee meeting focused on liquidity in the bond market, and identified and prioritized a number of important themes for the fixed income market, particularly for corporate bonds.

Government bond yields dropped across Europe over the course of a particularly volatile October.

In just three months, the MiFID II regulatory regime will come into effect for European financial markets, bringing with it a number of significant changes.