MARKET NEWS
FIM Partners appoints emerging market debt trader
FIM Partners has hired Nicholas Nellis as a portfolio manager and trader focused on emerging-market debt.
He joins the London and Dubai-based investment manager after...
UK bond CTP suspension lifted
Etrading Software can finally sign the UK bond consolidated tape provider contract, with Ediphy consenting to the High Court suspension being lifted.
CEO Chris Murphy...
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...
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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Rules & Ratings: Understanding gaps between credit risk data and credit ratings
While credit ratings underline investor confidence and evaluation of debt products, credit risk data can potentially offer a more nuanced source of information for...
Rosa joins RBC
Adriano Rosa has joined RBC Capital Markets as a high yield (HY) credit trader. He is based in London.
RBC Capital Markets represents a quarter...
Investor Appetite: Credit buyers show stiff upper lip
Credit investors have proven resilient to political uncertainty while happy to take up the promised future view of AI application. As a result corporate...
US credit e-trading race tightens, November volumes fall
US credit e-trading volumes dipped for both MarketAxess and Tradeweb in November, the gap between the two platforms narrowing towards the end of the...
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...
Greenwich predicts schism in European and US bond markets
By Vineet Naik.
European bond market structure is likely to diverge further from the US, as a result of the different investment models which are...
Rules & Ratings: FTSE Russell launches Fixed Income TPI Index and TPI Focused Glidepath...
FTSE Russell has rolled out two new indices – the FTSE Fixed Income TPI Climate Transition Index Series and the FTSE Fixed Income TPI...
Mitsubishi HC Capital UK raises €60m on TreasurySpring with first sustainable fixed-term fund
Mitsubishi HC Capital UK, a provider of consumer lending, asset finance and vehicle leasing, has borrowed more than €60 million on TreasurySpring’s platform by...
Paolo Buscaglia swaps UniCredit for Santander
Santander Corporate & Investment Banking has appointed Paolo Buscaglia as co-head of European government bond (EGB) and sovereign, supranational and agency debt (SSA) trading....
Announcement – The DESK Q1 2020
The Q1 issue of The DESK is due from the printer and under the current exceptional circumstances we are happy to re-direct your copy...
State Street: Investors hesitant in fixed income across March
Investors remain risk seeking in equities but hesitant in fixed income – that is according to State Street’s Risk Appetite Index, which rebounded to...
LatAm sees e-trading momentum with support for all-to-all
In Latin America, 46% of trading in corporate hard currency bonds is conducted electronically, according to research by analyst firm Coalition Greenwich, compared to...
