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$1.8 billion deal.
The company announced in October that it...
FEATURES
Credit futures see OI and ADV increase more than sevenfold YoY
The adoption of credit futures as a mainstream credit trading vehicle is broadening across venues and currencies: US$ 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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FROM THE ARCHIVES
The 2020 vision for primary markets
New platform launches in 2020 will see intense competition to manage the bond issuance process. Dan Barnes reports.
Traders at buy-side firms are looking for...
Industry viewpoint: Fabrizio Testa, MTS
Innovation in the age of electronic fixed income trading.
Fabrizio Testa, CEO of MTS
What trends have characterised the bond markets that MTS facilitates over the last year?
The...
LedgerEdge appoints fixed income veteran Neal as CEO of US operations
LedgerEdge, the developer of an ecosystem for fixed income trading, has appointed industry veteran Michelle Neal as CEO of its US operations.
Her appointment will...
UK bond tape tender confirmation pushed to midnight tonight
Confirmation of the UK’s bond consolidated tape provider has been delayed until midnight tonight, its second extension, indicating open questions around the award still...
Citi and JP Morgan absent from Fed programme
The list of eligible dealers for the Fed’s bond and exchange-traded fund programme for the 12th May has been published and it is missing...
Intelligent application of artificial intelligence in credit
A picture has emerged of the future credit desk for buy-side traders, from discussions at the Fixed Income Leaders’ Summit in Washington DC last...
FCA fines PwC £15m over failure to report suspected fraud at LCF
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined Big Four consultancy PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) for failing to report to the regulator their belief that London Capital...
On The Desk: Carl James: On changing trader culture
Moving to a data-led model of trading requires a change in culture across the desk, as Pictet Asset Management’s head of Fixed Income Trading...
The Book: Primary dealer positions climb rapidly, but concerns appear unfounded
Primary dealer positions of US Treasury holdings are expanding rapidly, but concern around restrictions on capacity are misplaced according to analysis.
A new paper by...
Investor Demand: Investor wariness over AI stocks balloons
Global fund managers viewed the AI equity bubble as the biggest tail risk in October, according to BofA’s Global Fund Manager Survey.
Concerns grew from...
US Treasuries lost its ‘sell-side’; can clearing and capital rules revive it?
Market participants report the current proposals by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to centrally clear trades in the US Treasuries market are...
US fixed income issuance down 12%, ADV up 13.5%, in Q3 2023 YoY
Total US fixed income issuance for Q3 2023 saw a 12% drop (from US$1.8tn) against the same quarter in 2022, and down 12.8% against...
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