MARKET NEWS
FIM Partners appoints emerging market debt trader
FIM Partners has hired Nicholas Nellis as a portfolio manager and trader focused on emerging-market debt.
He joins the London and Dubai-based investment manager after...
UK bond CTP suspension lifted
Etrading Software can finally sign the UK bond consolidated tape provider contract, with Ediphy consenting to the High Court suspension being lifted.
CEO Chris Murphy...
New Issue IQ, Boltzbit partner on primary market automation
Bond issuance fintech New Issue IQ has partnered with AI firm Boltzbit to improve its processing operations, seeking to automate a traditionally manual area...
CME Group outage boosts FMX’s case, BofA says
CME Group’s market outages were resolved at 8:20 CT on 28 November, after a less-than-restful Thanksgiving for the organisation. But while it’s back to...
Collins leaves Trumid for MarketAxess
Gav Collins has swapped Trumid for MarketAxess, being named head of the transformation office.
Based in London, Collins will work on the firm’s long-term strategic...
BNP Paribas loses Puget to BlueCrest
Francois Puget has joined fixed income macro trading firm BlueCrest Capital Management as a senior portfolio manager after almost 30 years with BNP Paribas.
Based...
FEATURES
Credit futures see OI and ADV increase more than sevenfold YoY
The adoption of credit futures as a mainstream credit trading vehicle is broadening across venues and currencies: US$ iBoxx total return based futures traded...
Trade size growth undercuts European bond market ‘equitification’
Since 2023 European corporate bond markets have seen trades size grow, as trading platforms report increasing volumes
“If we break down electronic trading growth in European...
The pretenders, and kingmakers, to the bond throne
Dealers are backing several new trading platforms who are fighting major incumbents for market share.
In the bond market, the trading platform landscape has been...
Declaration of dependence
US president to oversee financial institution regulation amid deregulation drive.
Executive orders signed by US president, Donald Trump, have given him oversight of all US...
PROFILES
RESEARCH
Bond traders predict data science/AI use explosion in 2026
The DESK’s Corporate Bond Liquidity Access Survey, supported by LTX, finds trading desks are on the cusp of change.
Buy-side traders see 2026 as a turning...
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RISK & RETURN
FROM THE ARCHIVES
US unbundling does not impose fiduciary execution rules on dealers
By Flora McFarlane.
US banks are able to unbundle trade execution and research payments without incurring fiduciary responsibility for trade execution. Following a lengthy process...
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Symphony names Levy CEO
Capital market communication firm Symphony has announced that David Gurlé will step down on 31 May 2021 and has appointed Brad Levy, current president...
Portfolio trading on the up: fixed income electronifies and sell-side sentiment down, says valantic/Acuiti
Sell-side fixed income participants are witnessing the deepening electronification of fixed income markets, according to a report from Acuiti in association with valantic FSA.
As...
Viewpoint: Ruben Costa-Santos & Milan Borkovec
Fixed income analytics comes of age.
By Ruben Costa-Santos, Head of Multi-Asset Analytics, and Milan Borkovec, Head of Analytics Quantitative Research at Virtu Financial.
Under MiFID...
JP Morgan leads DCM amidst primary markets retreat in Q1 2025
In the first quarter of 2025, global debt capital markets (DCM) activity retreated while JP Morgan maintained its position at the top of the...
Electronification of US credit delivers resilience
The electronification of the US corporate bond markets has demonstrated that its improved efficiency has strengthened depth of liquidity provision, rather than made it...
Euronext launches London to Bergamo microwave link
Euronext has launched Euronext Wireless network (EWIN), a London-based microwave service designed to improve the speed of order transmission between its core data centre...
Meraki Global Advisors hires fixed income trader from Loomis, Sayles, & Company
Meraki Global Advisors has hired Meghan Siripurapu as a managing director at the firm’s Park City Headquarters in the USA, to meet the growing...
FICC sponsored services use rises as central clearing looms
DTCC’s Fixed Income Clearing Corporation’s (FICC) Sponsored Service volumes reached US$2 trillion in 2024, up 83% year-on-year.
As firms prepare for new requirements around US...
Proprietary trading firms seek fixed income investment expansion in year ahead
Proprietary trading firms, buoyed by an optimistic outlook for the year ahead, are investing in trading new asset classes, particularly fixed income, with government...
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MiFID II/MiFIR text approval likely to take “several weeks”
A source close to the trilogue discussions around the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive and Regulation (MiFID II / MiFIR) has said that talks...
Joeri Wouters: On the millennial trader
Balancing a trader’s discipline and the curiosity of the millennial generation is creating a strong approach to negotiating the evolving fixed income landscape.
What are...
