News, Insight and Events

12 December, 2024

Liquidity, it’s a two-way street

Annabel Smith explores the growth of bilateral trading volumes in European equities, unpacking how the ascension of this increasingly complex segment could impact future liquidity and if it’s something regulators will assess further.

12 December, 2024

Liquidity Landscape: From Q3 trends to 2025 transformations

European equities in 2024 have continued to shake their reputation as the laggard in the global investment race and have remained resilient amid a complex economic environment.

1 October, 2024

Optiver partners with data analytics leader BMLL Technologies

Optiver is pleased to announce our strategic investment in BMLL Technologies, a leading independent provider of data and analytics across global equity, ETFs and futures markets.

20 September, 2024

Euronext to launch liquidity programme to help struggling dark pool

The exchange’s dark pool, launched in April, has so far failed to gain traction.

30 August, 2024

Kepler Cheuvreux wins Best Electronic Equities Trading Award at the European Market’s Choice Awards 2024

Kepler Cheuvreux was the winner of this year’s best electronic equities trading award at the European Market’s Choice Awards. Bobbie Port, KCx’s Head of Electronic Distribution, tells Global Trading what has led to the firm’s success.

27 August, 2024

JSE Insights: Trends in Activity and Market Quality

Since their introduction in the early 90’s, Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) have enjoyed significant success as an investment vehicle, with global ETF assets under management (AuM) reaching a record $11.5 trillion at the end of 2023.

13 August, 2024

The Fresh Prints of PS23/4

Using BMLL Data, LSEG look at how the newly updated FCA post-trade transparency regime has changed the data you might be looking at.

7 August, 2024

Caring for the ‘future’

Using BMLL Data, the Bank of England analyses SONIA (Sterling Overnight Index Average) futures and the STIR (Shot Term Interest Rate) futures market as a whole.

17 July, 2024

Futures under stress: how did gilt futures behave in the LDI crisis?

Using BMLL Data, the Bank of England looks at how and when gilt futures liquidity deteriorated during the 2022 LDI crisis.