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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...
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...
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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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Muting Ren joins American Century Investments
Muting Ren has joined American Century Investments on its global Fixed Income Team. He will serve as senior portfolio manager and head of systematic...
Buy side calls for reform in US Treasuries
Treasuries market under the spotlight as US finance ministry takes stock in one of the most sweeping reviews of its kind. Anna Reitman reports.
The...
Bond issuance platform eppf signs deal with DZ Bank
European bond issuance platform, european primary placement facility (eppf), has signed a new cooperation agreement with DZ Bank. eppf’s bond issuance platform will now...
AxeTrading founders step back from management
AxeTrading has announced that the founders of the firm, together with other members of the Board, have agreed that in order to address “the...
Moody’s: Short-term refinancing to grow in 2025
A report from rating agency Moody’s, has found that the proportion of US non-financial investment-grade corporate bonds needing refinancing within five years has grown...
FILS 2024: Differing views of the macro picture
Do the central banks have our backs? This question was debated by buyside strategists at the Fixed Income Leaders Summit on Friday.
“We believe in...
Alaa Bushehri promoted at BNPP AM
BNP Paribas Asset Management (BNPP AM) has appointed Alaa Bushehri as head of emerging markets debt. She reports to Olivier de Larouzière, chief investment...
CME Group announces Q4 2022 launch of European Overnight Index Futures
Derivatives marketplace operator, CME Group, has announced it will launch European Overnight Index futures based on RepoFunds Rate (RFR) benchmarks and the Euro Short-Term...
Portugal to join FTSE World Government Bond Index; India deferred
Portugal has been added to the FTSE World Government Bond Index (WGBI), effective November 2024. FTSE Russell stated that the country now meets all...
Ballooning margin costs hobble US treasury basis trade returns, research finds
Institutional investors betting on yield spread fluctuations between US treasuries are facing ballooning margin costs, new research from derivatives analytics firm OpenGamma reveals.
Rising margin...
Alignment Systems expands team to support demand for front office analytics
Front office technology specialist Alignment Systems has expanded its team to better support buy-side client who are striving to use data more effectively in...
Derivatives Forum Frankfurt: Efficiency drives towards multi-asset trading
One of the primary reasons for the adoption of multi-asset trading is to improve efficiency, agreed ‘Trends in Multi-asset Trading’ panellists at this year’s...
