Coalition: Banks’ FICC trading victory in 2020 through remote working and market volatility
Remote working did not hold back sell-side firms in 2020 according to data from analyst firm Coalition. Full year investment banking revenues increased by...
How traders weathered the Treasury sell-off
The US Treasury’s auction of seven-year notes last Thursday saw the lowest investor appetite ever, according to some sources, leaving primary dealers holding the...
State Street introduces buy-side to buy-side repo programme
State Street has launched a new peer-to-peer repo programme for the buy side. Building out from its sponsored repo and securities lending model, including...
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...
Raiffeisen partners with AxeTrading and Integral to boost bond trading efficiency
Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI) has partnered with AxeTrading, the fixed income trading software company, and Integral, the FX technology provider, to deliver a new...
Global Investor Confidence Index decreased in February by 8.9 points
The Global Investor Confidence Index (ICI) decreased to 91.9, down 8.9 points from January’s revised reading of 100.8. The decline in investor confidence was...
Overbond and Rapid Addition form strategic alliance for bond trading automation
Overbond’s fixed income artificial intelligence (AI) will now offer protocol and system agnostic integration with venues and electronic trading systems used by sell-side and...
Glimpse Markets appoints Thorpe as senior sales advisor
Industry veteran Mike Thorpe has been appointed senior sales advisor by Glimpse Markets. Thorpe, who started his career in capital markets with Citi in...
Repo markets are back in focus for the Fed’s Treasury Market Practice Group
The US Federal Reserve’s Treasury Market Practice Group (TMPG) has focused this month on discussing the status of repurchase agreement (repo) clearing and settlement...
Citi clears CDS index option trades through ICE Clear Credit
Investment bank Citi has traded and cleared the first client-executed credit default swap (CDS) index option trades in the US through ICE Clear Credit,...
