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Onbrane and Agora merge
Onbrane and Agora Digital Markets have merged to create a single platform for debt issuance and management under the Onbrane brand.
Agora provides modelling and...
Tokenised Treasury transactions tested ahead of DTCC go-live
Franklin Templeton has exchanged a tokenised US Treasury for tokenised cash (USDCx) with Virtu Financial in real-time as the industry prepares for DTCC’s tokenised...
Pham swaps UBS for SIX
Nancy Pham has joined SIX as head of fixed income sales. She is based in Zurich.
In May 2026, SIX reported €157.9 billion in turnover...
Standard Chartered promotes two to CEO roles
Standard Chartered has promoted Margaret Harwood-Jones to CEO for Europe and the UK, effective 1 September.
The newly-created role unifies oversight of the two regions.
Standard...
Trumid, BlackRock deepen integration
Trumid’s credit trading workflows have been further integrated into the BlackRock Aladdin order and execution management system (OEMS).
Shared clients will be able to access...
Ediphy rolls out consolidated consolidated tape
Ediphy has launched an aggregated consolidated bond tape, bringing together UK, EU and US post-trade fixed income data.
The service combines the UK bond tape,...
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Invesco: Kaizen and the art of trading
Running one of the leanest teams on the street, Ray Uy’s traders amplify their firm’s investment ideas by combining deep relationships, cutting edge technologies...
The accelerating boat to China: A faster route for traders
China offers investors a wealth of opportunity, with the caveat that markets are not fully open. Where the authorities are cautious about changes to market...
Eurex sees lit credit future liquidity migrate to dark
The Bloomberg / Eurex credit futures conference in mid-January 2026 had all seats taken and attendees standing in the aisles. That bursting enthusiasm was...
Human battles machine in JGB market
Participants say electronic trading of Japanese government bonds has reached an inflection point, but others counter that the death of voice trading has been...
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Trading Intentions Survey: Data and protocol innovation are the battlegrounds for...
The 2026 Trading Intentions Survey has found that data is the most hotly-contested field in supporting corporate bond trading today, while analysis of trading...
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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...
Maddox swaps TSB for L&G Asset Management
James Maddox has joined L&G Asset Management as a fixed income trader in London.
L&G Asset Management holds a reported £1,117 trillion in assets under...
Coalition Greenwich: Buy-side data spend sees highest growth in fixed income
Spending is up across all categories of market data, with equities, fixed income and derivatives all expected to see a rise of more than...
TransFICC secures US$25 million Series B led by Citadel Securities
TransFICC, a provider of low-latency connectivity and workflow services for fixed income and derivatives markets, has secured US$25 million in a Series B fundinground...
Investor Demand: Barclays study challenges FCA proposals on retail access to corporate bonds
A detailed analysis by investment bank Barclays raises questions about the practical impact of regulatory measures to increase access to corporate bond markets, suggesting...
Digitization has changed EGB trading forever
Digitization has changed EGB trading forever
Roderick Joniaux, European Government Bonds (EGB) Product Manager, Tradeweb
Many of us have witnessed first-hand how new technologies have impacted financial...
Federal Reserve: Dealer sensitivity major barrier to all-to-all trading in US Treasuries
A new staff paper published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York has found there are possible advantages in delivering all-to-all trading to...
Mahomed leaves LGAM
Azim Mahomed has left his role as an emerging markets fixed income trader at Legal & General Asset Management.
The firm holds £1.177 trillion in...
FILS 2022: Repo market not broken but can do better
Liquidity problems shone a light on the effectiveness of the repo market in recent months, speakers acknowledged at this year’s Fixed Income Leaders' Summit...
Citi’s Peneety swaps to Citadel Securities
Citi veteran Vincent Peneety has jumped ship to Citadel Securities.
Based in New York, Peneety has joined the investment grade credit sales team at the...
MarketAxess expands BlackRock partnership Aladdin OEMS integration
MarketAxess is set to expand its decade-long partnership with BlackRock, integrating its credit trading protocols, pricing and data into BlackRock’s Aladdin order execution management...
GreySpark: FI markets will continue to see fragmentation based on all-to-all trading
A report by consultancy GreySpark has found that in 2020, global fixed income e-trading landscape has been defined by fragmentation in line with historical...
