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Berry joins First Eagle
Edward Berry has joined First Eagle Investments as managing director for alternative credit.
First Eagle holds US$213 billion in assets under management as of 31...
ICE launches pre-trade analytics tool for fixed income buy side
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) has launched a fixed income pre-trade analytics platform, ICE Compass, which the company says uses artificial intelligence to rank trading counterparties...
Bloomberg and DirectBooks collaborate on primary market workflows
Bloomberg and DirectBooks have announced a collaboration on automated primary bond market workflows is now live.
The collaboration brings together DirectBooks and TSOX, Bloomberg’s fixed...
Exclusive: TP ICAP launches RealQ to electronify block bond trades
TP ICAP has launched RealQ, a new credit trading and data platform designed to optimise block bond trading.
"We're focused on electronifying the part of...
Citadel Securities, Deutsche Bank and more back FairCT
Ediphy has announced five major investors for fairCT business, provider of the European consolidated tape for bonds.
Barclays, Citadel Securities, Deutsche Bank, TP ICAP and...
ICE sees record OI in Euribor options
The Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) recorded record open interest in Euribor options on 1 June.
The exchange reported that open interest in ICE Euribor futures and...
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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...
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...
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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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ICMA: Buy side struggled to make margin calls as repo dried up
A new report, ‘European repo market and the COVID-19 crisis’ published by the International Capital Markets Association, has found that some buy-side firms had...
FILS 2021: Liquidnet gives detail on new primary market offering
Liquidnet’s primary market offering for the bond market was laid out by Dan Hinxman, head of sales for Liquidnet Fixed Income at the Fixed...
European debt is standing up for primary markets
Global debt capital market (DCM) deal count year-to-date is down 5% year on year, according to Dealogic data. However, the local market pictures present...
Saudi Arabia joins JP Morgan, Bloomberg indices
Saudi Arabia’s SAR-denominated sovereign sukuk is set to become part of JP Morgan’s emerging markets government bond (GBI-EM) global diversified index and Bloomberg’s EM...
MTS and Wematch.live launch risk netting service for interest rate swaps on Euronext
European electronic fixed income platform MTS and fintech Wematch.live have successfully trialled the first session of the risk netting Service for interest rate swaps...
Propellant adds TRACE data to global FI data platform
Propellant Digital is adding TRACE data to its global fixed income data platform, increasing its coverage of US and European bond and derivative data.
Vincent...
US credit volumes jump YoY
US corporate bond trading is expecting to reach record levels in 2025, according to a recent Coalition Greenwich report.
In November, average daily trade sizes...
October e-trading bond platforms; rates up, credit mixed
Electronic bond trading and data platform MarketAxess has reported its monthly trading volume for October 2021 was US$619 billion with credit trading down 4%...
Baillie Gifford bond fund changes name and cuts fees by 50%
In January 2021, the Baillie Gifford Worldwide Global Credit Fund became the Baillie Gifford Worldwide Global Strategic Bond Fund. In addition, Baillie Gifford cut...
Direct price streaming will transform credit trading
Banks are providing corporate bond pricing feeds direct to clients shaping new potential execution paths. Dan Barnes reports.
Big investment banks including Morgan Stanley, UBS...
Coalition: FICC up 50% for banks in H1, rates revenues doubled
Banks saw fixed income, currency and commodities (FICC) revenues rise by 54.6% in the first half of the year according to analyst firm Coalition....
Analysis: E-trading platforms see gains and losses in corporate bond market battle
Morgan Stanley analysis of the monthly reports from market operators Tradeweb and MarketAxess, has shown wins and losses in market share for both platforms.
Looking...
