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Profile : Paul Squires : Navigating uncharted territory
Paul Squires, Head of the EMEA Equities and Henley Fixed Interest dealing teams at investment management company Invesco discusses the benefit of experience, the...
Stuart Taylor to lead electronic trading fixed income at MUFG
MUFG has appointed Stuart Taylor as head of electronic trading within Global Markets for EMEA, Asia and the Americas, effective 20 November 2020.
This newly...
Bond Origination Technologies set to launch early 2021
Bond Origination Technologies (Bots), a London-based financial technology start-up for the primary debt capital markets (DCM), has completed its latest fundraising round, formed its...
Virtu signs up two bond ETF issuers for new NAV pricing tool
Exchange-traded fund (ETF) issuers Charles Schwab Investment Management and WisdomTree Asset Management are now using the eNAV ETF analytics tool, developed by electronic liquidity...
ESMA corrects SI bond ranking to place BNP Paribas as second in Europe
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has republished its ESMA Annual Statistical Report, now stating that the largest systematic internalisers (SIs) for bond...
How big is portfolio trading in corporate bond markets?
Recent reports from market participants have given slightly different estimates for the use of portfolio trading in US corporate bonds, however the consensus is...
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European Women in Finance : Hortense Bioy : Engagement is key
Hortense Bioy, Director of Sustainability Research, EMEA and APAC at Morningstar speaks to Shanny Basar about ESG initiatives and sustainability in her professional and...
European Women in Finance: Tricia Chan & Lucy Brown, MarketAxess
Staying one step ahead
Tricia Chan, Hong Kong Sales Manager, and Lucy Brown, ETF & Hedge Fund Sales at MarketAxess talk to Lynn Strongin Dodds...
Risk – Redemption shock
If funds are not given daily liquidity by the market, can they support daily redemptions for clients? Chris Hall reports.
When pandemic-fuelled panic hit the...
Buy-side fights back against primary market pressure
As new platforms promise to increase efficiency in bond issuance, buy-side firms are looking for leverage to drive change, and not only through technology.
The...
Louise Drummond – Honesty, trust and common sense
As global head of investment execution at Aberdeen Standard, Louise Drummond has risen through the ranks to become an industry leader and ambassador for the...
Data – Can buy-side firms share bond-trading data?
Asset managers agree they need access to more trading data, but have struggled to share it effectively between themselves.
The paucity of access to bond...
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Meet the new market makers
The DESK profiles six of the major electronic liquidity providers.
Non-traditional market makers were seen to offer liquidity when many dealers pulled back in 2020....
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CMA: ION takeover of Broadway looks likely
The UK’s Competition and Market’s Authority (CMA) has reported there are “reasonable grounds for believing that the undertakings offered by ION, or a...
Shah joins new fixed income team at Premier Miton Investors
Anish Shah has been named senior fixed income dealer at Premier Miton Investors, formed from the merger of Premier Asset Management Group and Miton...
AxeTrading links with Börse Stuttgart, Bond Port and adds Overbond pricing tool
Börse Stuttgart is to resume business in €-corporate bonds with its long-standing partner Raiffeisen Bank International AG (RBI), via the AxeTrading platform.
RBI will use...
Bloomberg makes its real-time B-PIPE data feed available on AWS
Bloomberg's flagship real-time market data feed, B-PIPE, has been available on the cloud via Amazon Web Services (AWS), giving clients access to the same...
Derivatives: Buying the benchmark
By Fred Maple.
As ownership of fixed income indexes changes, buy-side traders are cautious of the impact. Fred Maple reports.
Three major purchases of fixed income...
PLSA: Absorbed research costs must not impede transparency for investors
By Flora McFarlane.
The majority of large asset managers are opting to absorb research costs rather than pass them onto clients, but investors must investigate...
Liquidnet launches primary bond market offering as buy side demands innovation
Block-trading specialist Liquidnet is launching into the primary market technology space. Its new electronic solution, Liquidnet Debt Capital Markets (DCM), is focused on new...
The burgeoning portfolio trading business
Electronic portfolio trading offers an efficient execution channel for baskets of bonds, but Lynn Strongin Dodds finds there are several barriers to growth.
Portfolio trading...
Italian engineering
The longstanding debt market in Italy offers a good source of insight into the impact of changing rules around best execution and transparency in...
TP ICAP in talks to buy Liquidnet
Interdealer broker TP ICAP is in advanced discussions to take over block-trading equity and bond trading market operator Liquidnet for US$700 million.
Liquidnet has a...
Liquidnet: Connectivity is key for efficient trading
By Vineet Naik.
Liquidnet’s head of fixed income, Constantinos Antoniades, has emphasised the importance for connectivity between front office systems and trading venues as he...
FIX Trading Community releases guidelines on commission unbundling
By Flora McFarlane.
A new report has set out practices to follow for pre- and post-trade representation of commission steps across all asset classes.
With under...
