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Invesco: Kaizen and the art of trading

Running one of the leanest teams on the street, Ray Uy’s traders amplify their firm’s investment ideas by combining deep relationships, cutting edge technologies...

ICMA 2026: How digitalisation can reduce market stress

At the ICMA conference on 28 May 2026, Samara Cohen, global head of market development at BlackRock, laid out an agenda to accelerate market...

Repo: Fixed income gets a faster engine

The repo market sits at the heart of the global financial system, yet its efficiency rarely makes headlines outside specialist circles. As a mechanism...

Credit under pressure: What gives?

If interest rates go up, economic growth becomes strained and business conditions worsen, stress on the corporate bond and private credit markets will increase....

Exclusive: Hollingshead and Poole promoted, vindicating Jupiter AM’s technology transformation

Wayne Mepham, chief financial and operating officer (CFOO) at Jupiter Asset Management announced last month that Alison Hollingshead, currently the COO for Investment Management...

Beating increased trading costs in the 2-year Treasury

Two-year Treasury volatility has jumped in March, as yields rose rapidly, reflecting weakening confidence in future rate cuts being made by the US Federal...

Roundtable debate: Can the market electronify block trades?

The efficiency of electronic trading has trade-offs for blocks based on information disclosure, leakage and trust. Electronifying execution of larger bond orders is the ‘holy...

Scottish ‘vanity’ issuance project puts investors at risk from independence

The Scottish Government has confirmed plans to enter the bond market and issue £1.5bn of debt in 2026-2027. Ben Ashby, chief investment officer at...

Ratings and Analysis: Is the life insurance the wobbly leg of finance?

US life insurer, Brighthouse Financial, was downgraded by ratings agency Fitch on Monday, following the announcement it was to be acquired by private investment...