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Compagnie Financière Tradition today posted its financial report for the first half of 2020, revealing a set of solid metrics.

Business activities in the first half of 2020 took place against an unfolding health crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, which generated increased volatility in the financial markets, particularly in March.

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Tradition noted the increasing volume of activity on the financial markets and its positive impact on the Group’s revenues.

Refinitiv has adopted a waterfall methodology to ensure a robust rate is published in almost all circumstances. The primary source of data is executable bids and offers from TP ICAP’s i-Swap and Tradition’s Trad-X electronic platforms.

Stelios Tselikas, chief operating officer at ICE Benchmark Administration, told Markets Media: “We have a robust waterfall methodology using the best available data. In level one, we are using data from three trading venues – BGC, Tradition and TP ICAP.”

ICE Benchmark Administration has started publishing beta term SONIA rates for testing, using data from BGC, TP ICAP, and Tradition’s Trad-X central limit order books.

Trad-X, the trading platform for interest rate derivatives, has added UniСredit as a dealer and ACTIAM as a non-dealer to its dealer-to-client (D2C) electronic central limit order book (CLOB).

UniCredit and investment manager ACTIAM have signed up to the dealer-to-client electronic central limit order book for interest rate derivatives trading from Trad-X.

Interdealer broker Tradition says its data sales team is seeing better results and an improved sales pipeline after taking advantage of free training courses for industry association FISD’s Financial Information Associate (FIA) certification program.