FactSet’s work with GIC launches new fixed income trading capabilities
FactSet has launched fixed income trading capabilities for its execution management system (EMS), Portware, a FactSet trading solution, which is best known for its...
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...
Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Asset Management adopts Bloomberg Rule Builder
Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Asset Management has adopted Bloomberg Rule Builder (RBLD), a multi-asset, rules-based trade automation tool, to try and enhance the efficiency and...
Advances in corporate bond e-trading: Five lessons learned
By Constantinos Antoniades, Global Head of Fixed Income at Liquidnet
Since early 2015 we have seen a steady acceleration in the migration towards electronic trading...
Muting Ren joins American Century Investments
Muting Ren has joined American Century Investments on its global Fixed Income Team. He will serve as senior portfolio manager and head of systematic...
Denmark FSA investigating bond funds’ double-figure losses
Sources report the Danish Financial Services Authority (DFSA) has launched an investigation into fund losses from mortgage bond holdings, as rising interest rates have...
Erik Swords to head AllianzGI’s technology investment team
Allianz Global Investors (AllianzGI), has published succession plans for its global technology investment team, which has been led by Walter Price since inception.
After more...
Aité: Buy-side desk sophistication is driving EMS innovation
A new report by analyst firm Aité, entitled, ‘OMS/EMS Convergence in the Cloud: Better Together’, author Spencer Mindlin has identified two major trends in...
How the ICMA got firm on bond pricing
Buy-side traders have long decried the lack of executable price in bond markets. For the best part of a decade the electrification of these...
AXA IM: Credit downgrades increases concentration and liquidity risk in index investment
A decrease in the average credit quality of fixed income indices and intensifying competition for high quality assets present increasingly serious challenges for UK...
