UBS CIO: Ways to find income in a low rate world
Mark Haefele, chief investment officer for Global Wealth Management at UBS has provided guidance, alongside a team of strategists, on where investment opportunities exist...
thinkFolio integrates Investor Access to support primary market workflow
IHS Markit's thinkFolio investment management platform has integrated with the firm's Investor Access primary market workflow tool, to provide fixed income issuance support within...
JWG: Cloud is “large systemic technology risk blind spot”
JWG, the regulatory think tank, has published a research paper ‘Risk control for a digitized financial sector’ which claims to identify a large systemic...
Buy-side support for FSB on CCP resolution
US buy-side trade body the Investment Companies Institute (ICI) says it supports the Financial Stability Board’s (FSB’s) guidance on central counterparty (CCP) resolution.
CCPs became...
MayStreet expands cash treasury offering with Fenics data
MayStreet, the market data infrastructure provider, has added Fenics US Treasuries (Fenics UST) to its US cash treasury data portfolio. Owned and operated by...
Glimpse Markets launches data-sharing for buy-side trading desks
Glimpse Markets, a new post-trade data sharing platform for fixed income, aims to turn data costs of the buy-side on their head, by providing...
EC suspends best execution reporting which is “not read at all”
The European Commission (EC) has adopted a Capital Markets Recovery Package, as part of the Commission's overall coronavirus recovery strategy which includes increased leniency...
MarketAxess hit 21.5% of investment grade TRACE volume in Q2
Fixed-income market and infrastructure operator, MarketAxess, has seen revenues for the second quarter of 2020 increase 47% year-on-year (YoY) to US$184.8 million, up from...
Symphony’s new president outlines his vision
Brad Levy, the new president and chief commercial officer (CCO) of Symphony, the capital markets communication network, has outlined his vision of the company’s...
CMA: ION takeover of Broadway looks likely
The UK’s Competition and Market’s Authority (CMA) has reported there are “reasonable grounds for believing that the undertakings offered by ION, or a...