BlackRock’s Rieder: Fed will buy at least $1.5 trillion in Treasuries in 2020
Rick Rieder, BlackRock’s chief investment officer of Global Fixed Income, co-manager of the BlackRock Fixed Income Global Opportunities fund and BGF Global Bond Income...
ICE consolidates access to ICE Bonds and ICE Data Services
Market operator Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), has launched ‘ICE Select’ an application which provides connectivity to the ICE Fixed Income ecosystem, including the ICE Bonds...
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...
Me The Money Show – Episode Three
Dan Barnes interviews Lynn Strongin Dodds on the latest issue of Best Execution.
The Fed and BlackRock’s bond-buying criteria challenged
Detail around the Primary Market Corporate Credit Facility (PMCCF) and Secondary Market Corporate Credit Facility (SMCCF) launched by the Federal Reserve Bank of New...
Odd-lot bond case alleges pressure on Bloomberg and collusion
In the US Southern District Court of New York, a class-action lawsuit has been brought against a group of banks, alleging that since 1...
Not fighting the Fed on high yield flow
High yield bonds have seen electronic trading in the US increase, with liquidity enhanced by the Federal Reserve’s announcement on 9 April that it...
Study finds 21% of buy-side lost access to tradable instruments in crisis
A new ‘Derivatives Insight Report’ by analyst firm Acuiti has found that 21% of buy-side firms, including proprietary trading firms and asset managers, suffered...
Me The Money Show – Episode Two
Terry Flanagan, editor of Markets Media, highlights previous winners of the Markets Choice Awards and gives tips on nominations for this year, with Dan...
Report: Buy-side traders often still seen as ‘trading support’
A new report by Liquidnet entitled ‘Unbundling Best Execution: What do traders need to know?’ has found that while most buy-side trading desks are...
