SIX acquires majority stake in fixed income data firm FactEntry
SIX has acquired a majority stake in FactEntry, a global provider of fixed income reference data, analytics, and solutions for financial market participants.
The acquisition,...
Analysis: Impact of debt issuance on sell-side revenues in Q1
Strong bond issuance in the first quarter (Q1) is galvanising performance of debt capital market teams at investment banks, in turn creating optimism amongst...
Derivatives Forum Frankfurt: Efficiency drives towards multi-asset trading
One of the primary reasons for the adoption of multi-asset trading is to improve efficiency, agreed ‘Trends in Multi-asset Trading’ panellists at this year’s...
BNY Mellon & GLMX connect buy-side repo trading to triparty
BNY Mellon and fintech firm, GLMX, are allowing buy-side clients to direct repo trades at point of execution to BNY Mellon's Triparty platform.
This...
Port in a storm: Asian international bond markets resilient amid volatility
Volatile interest rates, a fractious geopolitical landscape, and rumbles in the Chinese property sector. Despite these headwinds, the international bond markets in Asia were...
BlackRock CEO backs blended active/passive bond portfolios
Larry Fink, chairman and CEO of investment giant BlackRock, has advocated the use of blended active and passive portfolios to optimise fixed income investments.
In...
LMA calls for simplified template for securitisations
The Loan Market Association (LMA) has outlined its position on securitisation disclosure templates, calling for a simplified template for private securitisations in the short-term,...
Leveraged loan market ripe for innovation after 2023 revenue bump
US dealer revenue hit US$900 million in 2023, representing a 16% increase against 2021 and a 29% bump on 2022, attributed to a renewed...
Exhaustion with US Treasury issuance a matter of time
The US is issuing two, five and seven year Treasury bonds this week, the second of which will be issued today. The five-year bond...
Risk of fiscal crisis in US from growing federal debt
A new report from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has found that if current laws governing taxes and spending generally remained unchanged, the federal...
