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Neil Palan joins Sarasin & Partners
Neil Palan has joined Sarasin & Partners, an investment manager with £18.8 billion in assets under management, as a multi-asset trader.
Palan spent 16...
The credit trading processes you really should have automated by now…
Automation has historically been highly challenging in corporate bond markets for several reasons, but traders say some parts of the workflow ‘ought’ to be...
Amundi US and Victory Capital to merge in new 15-year partnership
European asset manager Amundi is set to become a strategic shareholder in global asset management firm Victory Capital, following a signed Memorandum of Understanding...
US 2 Year Treasury Note breaks 5%
The US 2 Year Treasury Note rose above 5% at approximately 2 AM EDT last night. Highs of 5.007% were recorded at 2:22 and...
Strong bond issuance raises Q1 bank revenues, Citi up 62%
Goldman Sachs broke the mould for fixed income market makers in Q1, achieving a 6% year-on-year revenue growth, reaching US$3.47 billion.
However, despite declines in...
US high yield e-trading volumes drop YoY
US corporate bond activity saw a slight slowdown over March, although remained elevated on a historical basis, Coalition Greenwich’s April Data Spotlight on US...
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Jupiter AM: Training to trade against heavyweight rivals in fixed income
Jupiter Asset Management has trained its trading team on data and analytics in order to beat its rivals to the punch when finding liquidity...
Buy side hails positive development of STP for bond issuance
Risk warning lights flashing on buy-side trading desks could be assuaged thanks to industry collaboration on primary markets.
It seems incongruous that the 50-year old...
Balancing short and long term liquidity provision
Best execution on a trade-by-trade basis is too simplistic a measure of liquidity provision; The DESK looks at best practice for longer term liquidity...
The Tenth Annual Trading Intentions Survey
Key parts of bond market electronification are still up for contention, with stiff competition across pre-trade, primary and secondary market services.
In 2024 The DESK...
Lars Salmon: On internal strength
Fidelity International has homegrown internal expertise and tech, to support a fixed income trading team that can weather all markets.
Lars Salmon is head of...
Systematic, hydromatic; can credit get as fast as greased lightning?
Some investment firms have claimed they can fully systematise credit trading by 2025, The DESK investigates.
Investment managers and banks are rapidly adopting systematic approaches...
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The Tenth Annual Trading Intentions Survey
Key parts of bond market electronification are still up for contention, with stiff competition across pre-trade, primary and secondary market services.
In 2024 The DESK...
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Greenwich Associates: Growth of electronic trading for EM bonds
A new report from analyst house Greenwich Associates has found that electronic trading of emerging market (EM) bonds has reached 70% amongst US asset...
GAM Investments onboards Bloomberg to improve risk and portfolio management workflows
GAM Investments has adopted an integrated suite of Bloomberg buy-side workflow solutions in a drive to streamline risk and portfolio management across the enterprise....
Bloomberg unveils fully automated basis trade and reporting workflow
Bloomberg has rolled out a fully automated electronic workflow for the trading and reporting of EUR interest rate swap (IRS) v bond future contracts...
MeTheMoneyShow – Episode Six
Dan Barnes, editorial director of Markets Media Europe and editor of The DESK, speaks to Lynn Strongin Dodds, editor of Best Execution about three...
ISIN at issuance launched for Eurobonds by Origin
Origin Markets, the debt capital markets fintech, is launching an instant-ISIN feature, created in collaboration with international central securities depositary (ICSD) Clearstream, which is...
Electronic trading for corporate bonds – enhancing efficiency and addressing brokerage costs
By Frank Cerveny, Global Head of Relationship Management, MTS Markets
Electronic trading has been on the rise, driven in large part by automation, greater transparency...
US Treasuries market picks up the electronic pace due to Covid-19
Covid-19 has triggered a “dramatic” shift in US Treasuries, the world’s largest bond market towards electronic execution from traditional voice trading, according to a...
Chart of the week: Attack of the killer BBBs
The lowest tier of investment grade bonds show an interesting opportunity in the new issue space, as observed by analyst firm CreditSights. Relative value...
Macquarie Asset Management names Vivek Bommi head of leveraged credit
Macquarie Asset Management (MAM) has named Vivek Bommi as head of leveraged credit.
In this role, based in Philadelphia, Bommi will be responsible for the...
JP Morgan chooses Mosaic fixed income data analytics platform
By Flora McFarlane.
In a move to increase the efficiency and efficiency across its FICC sales and trading division, JP Morgan has contracted Mosaic Smart...
A tale of two metrics – US IG corporate bond market liquidity in 2022
By Julien Alexandre, 12 October 2022
Corporate Bond Market Distress Index
The NY Fed recently launched the Corporate Bond Market Distress Index and backfilled it all...
Market reports: Algomi to be acquired
Market reports are that pre-trade data provider Algomi will be bought by interdealer broker BGC. Stu Taylor, formerly the CEO of Algomi, joined BGC...
