MiFIR: Controversy around consolidated tape proposal for revenue sharing with venues
The Czechia presidency of the Council of the European Union proposed amending the Markets in Financial Instrument Regulation (MiFIR) on 16 December 2022, with...
The DESK Research: The state of liquidity for US mid-market asset management firms
In 2022, despite robust secondary trading volumes, many buy-side firms are citing worsening liquidity conditions and dealers have seen falling trading revenues moving into...
bfinance finds insurers’ move away from fixed income is accelerating
Analysis by investment research firm, bfinance, has found that the proportion of insurers decreasing their fixed income holdings has been accelerated by the pandemic,...
FILS USA 2023: Market volatility has tested e-trading and instrument selection
Having had a challenging and volatile first half of the year from a liquidity perspective, not least because of a crisis in US and...
Bond e-Trading prices still off; central banks adding to turmoil
Buy-side traders are still reporting “violent moves” in fixed income. In a liquidity crisis, investors are reliant on their asset managers’ traders to support...
Aegon AM: Bond market liquidity fears ‘overblown’
Fears over a potential liquidity crisis in the corporate bond market are “significantly overblown”, according to Adrian Hull, head of core fixed income at...
Exclusive: Kirstie MacGillivray named UK CEO of Aegon AM
Kirstie MacGillivray has become the UK CEO of Aegon Asset Management, a buy-side firm with €315 billion assets under management. MacGillivray has been the...
Trading systems FIXed to Ipreo for bond issuance
Primary market specialist Ipreo has launched a FIX-messaging based system for integrating the Ipreo Investor Access platform, which allows investors to electronically submit orders directly to...
Wellington: Internal crossing could have saved US$10-15 million
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) sub-committee the Fixed Income Market Structure Advisory Committee (FIMSAC), has unanimously passed a proposal to support internal crossing...
Fed: No bond ETF fees for BlackRock; JP Morgan still AWOL
Under the new Federal Reserve asset purchasing programme, BlackRock, the asset manager which is acting as the trading function for the programme, will charge...