Sovereigns may be downgraded due to climate change
There could be a significant economic impact on the 25 countries in the FTSE World Government Bond Index (WGBI) by 2030 due to the...
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...
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...
Overbond releases AI-driven margin optimisation tool
Overbond has released an artificial intelligence (AI) powered margin optimisation add-on that integrates with its existing suite of AI-driven fixed income analytics. Sell-side traders...
First Sentier connects Flowlinx via FlexTrade to access EM liquidity data
Asset manager First Sentier Investors has connected to Flowlinx liquidity via execution and order management system (E/OMS) provider FlexTrade.
Flowlinx is designed to simplify block...
Finanstilsynet: Portfolio manager “abused his position” by flipping bonds and self-trading
The senior portfolio manager for Norwegian investment firm Kraft Finans, Øivind Thorstensen, was piggy-backing on client investment in new bond issues, in order to...
LedgerEdge selects Eventus for DLT-based corporate bond platform
LedgerEdge, the corporate bond trading platform being developed on distributed ledger technology (DLT), has selected Validus, a real-time trade surveillance platform built by Eventus...
Overbond and IPC partner on voice-to-AI supporting bond trading automation
Overbond has partnered with IPC, the communications and cloud connectivity service provider, to integrate IPC’s point-of-trade voice transaction data into Overbond’s artificial intelligence (AI)...
Symphony acquires StreetLinx
Symphony has acquired the counterparty mapping platform StreetLinx, thereby adding over 200 institutional counterparties to the 1000+ institutions it reports are currently using Symphony....
