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Overbond aims to increase fixed income automation

Overbond has introduced a margin optimization model for trading and incorporated voice data in its data as it looks to provide more interoperable artificial...

Goldman Sachs agrees to buy NNIP for €1.6 billion

Goldman Sachs has agreed to buy European asset manager NN Investment Partners from NN Group NV for €1.6bn, marking the biggest acquisition under CEO...

European Women in Finance Awards – nominations are still open!

We're aware that after last Summer - when, let's face it we were pretty limited in our vacation options - just about everyone is...

Electronic trading volume in US fixed income hits record

Electronic trading of US investment-grade and high-yield bonds reached an all-time high in July according to data from Coalition Greenwich. Overall electronic trading accounted for...

Pimco says Fed’s new repo facility should ease future stress

Asset manager Pimco said the US Federal Reserve’s creation of a permanent standing repo facility (SRF) will help develop more resilient funding markets, although...

Is there value in fixed income TCA?

New research published by investment bank Barclays has suggested there is a limited use of transaction cost analysis (TCA) tools for purposes beyond regulatory...

ION LatentZero connected to UBS Bond Port for buy-side

Trading, analytics, and risk management system provider, ION Markets, has connected its LatentZero buy-side clients to the UBS Bond Port trading platform. Bond Port...

US Treasuries: You can’t handle the truth

Editorial by Dan Barnes. Nobody wants responsibility for the US Treasuries market. We checked. In 2014 The DESK approached every US financial regulator and authority to...

Bloomberg launches market-driven daily credit risk indicator

Bloomberg is offering its Market-Implied Probability of Default (MIPD) product, a market-driven creditworthiness indicator, to both Enterprise Data and Bloomberg Terminal clients globally. MIPD...