How asset managers capture micro-alpha opportunities
Setting up your desk correctly can help to boost returns for funds and clients.
When an opportunity arises for a fund to improve its returns,...
The fall of Europe’s brokers
Reduced competition could lead to higher prices for buy-side bond traders.
The collapse of European brokerage houses is hitting buy-side trading desks in two ways....
How to secure balance sheet from your broker
Buy- and sell-side veterans tell us the best practices which persuade brokers to take risk on their clients’ behalf.
Finding sell-side partners to take the...
UBS integrates Bond Port with iQbonds to increase counterparty diversity
UBS has integrated its Bond Port trading venue with iQbonds, the bond trading platform of software provider valantic.
iQbonds is heavily used in the German...
Björkman joins Credit Suisse as the head of execution for fixed income
Mikael Björkman has joined Credit Suisse’s private bank as the head of Execution in Fixed Income, joining from UBS’ private bank where he was...
Blake made partner at boutique Mariana Investment Partners
David Blake has joined Mariana Investment Partners, a boutique investment partnership focussed on investment solutions for small to mid-sized asset owners. Assets under advisory...
BondCliQ to provide corporate bond pricing in Charles River IMS
Charles River Development, a State Street Company, is collaborating with BondCliQ to support clients with corporate bond pricing. The deal will provide traders and...
Traders respond positively to MarketAxess/LiquidityEdge deal
Buy-side traders have responded positively to the announcement that electronic bond market operator, MarketAxess, has agreed to buy LiquidityEdge, the US Treasuries marketplace, noting...
ICE Data Services: Bond defaults double in Q2
ICE Data Services has seen the level of defaults for bonds double in Q2 2019 to US$7.183 billion, up from US$2.616 billion in Q1...
Mosaic Smart Data appoints Oxford Professor as Scientific Advisor
Rama Cont, Professor of Mathematical Finance, joins as Scientific Advisor
London, June 2019: Mosaic Smart Data (Mosaic), the real-time capital markets data analytics company, has...
