Mizuho and Credit Suisse join DirectBooks
DirectBooks, the capital markets consortium developing bond issuance technology to increase primary market efficiency has announced that Mizuho and Credit Suisse have joined its...
Asteria IM partners with Amundi for portfolio management system and dealing services
Asteria Investment Managers has adopted asset manager Amundi’s portfolio management system, the Amundi Leading Technologies & Operations (ALTO), for all of its assets under...
ICE Data fine is symptomatic of bond data challenge
ICE Data Pricing & Reference Data (PRD) has been fined by US$8 million by US market regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), for...
MarketAxess launches centralised marketplace with integrated rates trading
Electronic bond market operator, MarketAxess, has launched a centralised fixed income trading marketplace integrating rates trading capabilities within the MarketAxess trading system.
MarketAxess acquired government...
Kluth named head of dealing at AMP Capital
Dylan Kluth has been promoted to head of dealing at AMP Capital, seven years after taking up his first trading role as an equity...
TORA integrates Neptune to boost fixed income OEMS
Trading technology provider, TORA, is integrating its leading order/execution management system (OEMS) with Neptune Networks, the pre-trade data connectivity source. The new connection enables...
Seth Bernstein: Diversification via fixed income “if not dead, is in critical condition”
Seth Bernstein, the CEO of US$622 billion AUM asset manager AllianceBernstein, has opened the Fixed Income Leaders’ Summit US today, with an analysis of...
Savery named senior rates trader at Loomis, Sayles & Company
Loomis, Sayles & Company has appointed Patrick Savery as a senior US rates trader. Until recently Savery was working as a senior municipal bonds...
Adaptable AI: Predicting Bond Prices in the Year of Surprises
Kristina Fan, Founder and CEO of 7 Chord, tells The DESK how BondDroid, the firm’s proprietary machine-learning technology, is overcoming barriers to AI adoption...
Burton-Taylor: S&P and IHS Markit merger creates intriguing synergies in data
On 30 November 2020, S&P Global and IHS Markit announced that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement to combine in an all-stock...