Balls calls for UK to adopt a more risk-assertive culture
Ed Balls, former economic secretary to the UK Treasury & shadow chancellor, has called for the UK to adopt a risk-positive culture in order...
BNY Mellon makes two hires in fixed income and equities sales and trading
BNY Mellon has made two new managing director hires to its fixed income and equities sales and trading business’.
Bianca Gould joins as head of...
RBC names Michael Mullholland director of leveraged credit sales
RBC has named Michael Mulholland director of leveraged credit sales, based in London.
Mulholland joins from UBS, where he was part of the firm’s leveraged...
AFME: Buy- and sell-side debate value of new bond trading protocols
At the inaugural AFME Bond Trading, Innovation and Evolution Forum, panellists discussed the future opportunities of the international bond markets. As the discussion drew...
FCA rules out wholesale market data action despite higher price drivers
The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published the findings of its wholesale data market study – ruling out any “significant intervention” on the...
MarketAxess re-launches Mid-X in Europe
MarketAxess has relaunched its matching session solution Mid-X in Europe, after simplifying the fee structure.
Mid-X offers daily, fully anonymous, matching sessions at the firm’s...
LSEG FY 2023 results: Fixed income offsets wider capital markets drop
London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) reported its full year (FY) 2023 results today, with earnings in line with expectations despite a slight drop in...
Why traders make better PMs
A new paper published by Gjergji Cici of the University of Kansas, with Philipp Schuster and Franziska Weishaupt, of the University of Stuttgart, has...
Coalition Greenwich: US Treasuries trading up 46% YoY in January
“The more the US government borrows (US$2.6 trillion in January), the more US Treasury traders trade.”
This activity, according to Coalition Greenwich’s Kevin McPartland, is...
Credit: January sees largest average daily notional for US corporate bonds
January 2024 saw the largest single volume day and largest average daily notional volume (ADNV) month ever for US corporate bonds.
$75 billion of investment...
