MARKET NEWS
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...
CME markets down as data centre overheats
Markets are currently halted at CME Group due to an overheating data centre.
The Globex futures and options market, cash FX EBS market and direct...
US retail goes big on directly-held bonds
Retail investors are leaning back into bonds, according to a recent Coalition Greenwich report – and are increasingly owning them directly, rather than through...
Doriane Geyler Rojas joins Ostrum AM
Doriane Geyler Rojas has been appointed business manager and project lead within the "direction des gestions" at Ostrum Asset Management.
Ostrum AM says it manages...
“Carelessness, inattention, inadequate safeguards”: FCA hits back at Ediphy
The FCA has disputed Ediphy’s allegations that its consolidated tape provider e-auction process experienced a technical fault, and did not register its weighted average...
S&P Global acquires With Intelligence
S&P Global has acquired private markets data, insights and analytics firm With Intelligence in a US$1.8 billion deal.
The company announced in October that it...
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Credit futures see OI and ADV increase more than sevenfold YoY
The adoption of credit futures as a mainstream credit trading vehicle is broadening across venues and currencies: US$ 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...
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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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European trading strained in high yield
Comparing European high yield (HY) and investment grade (IG) corporate bond data from MarketAxess, the pressure for traders and investors in high yield markets...
UniCredit and ACTIAM join Trad-X’s dealer-to-client platform
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...
Simone Santiago leaves Morgan Stanley
Simone Santiago has left Morgan Stanley, the company has confirmed.
Santiago has been managing director at the firm since January 2022.
Prior to this, she spent...
Exclusive: Kirstie MacGillivray named UK CEO of Aegon AM
Kirstie MacGillivray has become the UK CEO of Aegon Asset Management, a buy-side firm with €315 billion assets under management. MacGillivray has been the...
New patterns in Eurobond electronic trading after MiFID II
By Gherardo Lenti Capoduri, Head of Market HUB and Umberto Menconi, Business Development & Market Structure, Market HUB, Banca IMI.
We have come a long...
The Federal Reserve faces legal challenge over stress tests and their implication on capital...
As an early Christmas present, major banking and business associations filed a lawsuit on the 24th of December against the Federal Reserve System's Board...
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Brambilla swaps Morgan Stanley for Citi
Silvia Brambilla has joined Citi as a financials credit trader. She is based in London.
Citi reported US$4.3 billion in fixed income markets revenue for...
Bryan Hall swaps MFS for Maple Capital Management
Bryan Hall has left MFS Investment Management after more than two decades, joining Maple Capital Management as a fixed income portfolio manager.
Hall has spent...
Buy side challenges SEC liquidity proposals
A number of buy-side firms have challenged Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposals that would require open-ended mutual funds, excluding money market funds and...
Mitali Sohoni and Dina Faenson promoted at Citi
Citi has appointed Mitali Sohoni as head of North American markets and Dina Faenson as CEO of Citigroup Global Markets (CGMI), according to a...
