MARKET NEWS
Nick Taylor joins KNG Securities
KNG Securities International has hired market veteran Nick Taylor as an EM credit sales-and-trading specialist in London.
Taylor arrives after three years as an emerging-markets...
Jesse Eberle joins Fidelity
Fidelity Investments has tapped Jesse Eberle as director, for the electronic trading product.
He is charged with steering the development of the firm’s Beacon fixed-income...
Solve adds visualisation to predictive pricing service
Market data provider Solve has updated its predictive pricing tool to support municipal bond traders’ pre-trade decision making.
The relative value analysis tool allows users...
SIX releases “flexible” fixed income data offering
SIX has launched a fixed income data offering in response to growing data requirements in the market.
The SIX Fixed Income Data service gathers data...
Jane Street issues US$1.35 billion bond as market makers bulks up balance sheet
Jane Street, the high frequency trading (HFT) firm, issued 6.75 % senior secured notes highlighting how proprietary dealers are now locking in long-term funding...
Matthew Cousens joins Clear Street
Matthew Cousens has been appointed EMEA head of electronic execution at Clear Street. He is based in London.
Clear Street held US$49 billion in assets...
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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...
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...
Electric dreams in global rates markets
Electronic trading between dealers and buy-side institutions is taking different paths in government bond markets, globally. Lucy Carter investigates.
“We have seen growth in the electronification of...
Trading Intentions Survey 2025
The battle for pre-trade analytics
The 2025 Trading Intentions Survey canvassed 40 buy-side trading desks across asset managers headquartered in Europe (52%) and the US...
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Trading Intentions Survey 2025
The battle for pre-trade analytics
The 2025 Trading Intentions Survey canvassed 40 buy-side trading desks across asset managers headquartered in Europe (52%) and the US...
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FROM THE ARCHIVES
Data: A blank tape
Europe’s consolidated tape proposal is a start, but many details still need to be filled in for its value to be assessed. Lynn Strongin...
BGC confirms FMX launch date of 23 September
BGC Group has confirmed that its FMX Futures Exchange will launch on 23 September, just one week from today.
The US interest rate futures exchange...
MeTheMoneyShow – Episode Nine
Dan Barnes and Terry Flanagan discuss buy-side perspectives in the latest issue of Global Trading: trading from home, broker relationships, and 'future-proofing' the trading...
DirectBooks names team and launches advisory committee
DirectBooks, a sell-side consortium designing systems for the primary bond market, has named Yvonne Wang as chief operating officer, and Christopher Rodriguez as global...
FILS USA: Adopt an EMS or face the consequences, panellist warns
Considering how trading desks can optimise new technology, panellists at this year’s Fixed Income Leaders Summit discussed how to prioritise automation efforts, what approach...
What is best execution and how can firms achieve it?
Gareth Coltman, Head of European Product Management, MarketAxess Europe offers his insights.
There is no doubt that MiFID II will have a profound and lasting...
State Street serves up ‘Cods and Chips’ in European bond market rigging case
State Street has helped to uncover chatrooms, including one called "Cods and Chips" that are alleged to have been used by sell-side traders to...
Pumped up projections: The Arizona gym muni fraud
The SEC has filed charges against three Arizonian individuals, alleging they defrauded investors by falsifying revenue documents for a US$284 million municipal bond issuance...
Raiffeisen Bank rolls out Chronicle FIX for global ETD business
Chronicle Software, a specialist provider of low-latency microservices and technology for financial services, has expanded its footprint in Raiffeisen Bank International.
The bank has rolled...
White paper: Is bond trading on the cusp of a change?
A white paper published by Flow Traders and WBR Research* has identified several key indicators that execution quality is being enhanced by new ways...
FILS USA 2022: How material will desktop Interoperability be for traders?
The rollout of FDC3 as a standard to support desktop interoperability between different applications has generated considerable interest in the trading community.
Dwayne Middleton, global...
Bank of England: Basel III regulation hurts repo for smaller asset managers
By Shobha Prabhu Naik.
A working paper written by Antonis Kotidis and Neeltje van Horen, staff for the Bank of England, has identified that the...
