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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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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...
EquiLend to launch Swaptimization platform in EU
Securities finance specialist, EquiLend, will be launching its Swaptimization platform in the autumn for financial institutions in the European Union.
The EU launch of Swaptimization,...
Europe’s incongruous drop in IG bid-ask spreads
European investment grade (IG) credit traders will have seen average bid-ask spreads declining since April, with the median average (typically about €0.03 cents lower...
FILS 2022: Itaú selects Genesis Global for new trade automation
Genesis Global, the low-code application development platform for financial markets organisations, will provide a new trade automation and client portal system for Itaú Securities.
The...
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...
FILS USA 2023: Macro effect on trading; BlackRock says higher rates ‘not fleeting’
The macro environment is having a major effect on the attractiveness of certain instruments, noted Sonali Pier, managing director and portfolio manager at PIMCO,...
FILS 2021: Tapping into the ‘data revolution’
Data integration, the acceleration of electronification and the incorporation of environmental, social and governance factors in fixed income were highlighted as the big issues...
Concannon to take the reins at MarketAxess
Market operator, MarketAxess, will see current CEO and chairman Rick McVey become executive chairman from 3 April 2023 as Chris Concannon, currently president and...
Country focus: India’s bond markets in an election year
India has an upcoming election on 19 April, which the governing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), led by incumbent Prime Minister Narendra Modi, is widely...
Tradeweb accelerates government bond benchmark closing price publication
Tradeweb will now publish FTSE UK Gilt and European Government Bond Benchmark Closing Prices at 4:30 PM.
This change has been made in response to...
Why US and European exchanges face very different landscapes
While European authorities try to push more trading back onto stock exchanges, which have entered a period of consolidation, US regulators are angling for...
Massive buy-side appetite for alternative data as 90% see return on investment
By Flora McFarlane.
Nearly half of asset managers and three-quarters of hedge funds intend to increase spending on alternative data sources in 2018, with 90%...
