Jefferies’ bond desks have an outstanding start to 2023
Investment banking firm Jefferies saw fixed income trading revenues jump 62% to US$590 million for the six months to May 2023, from US$364 million....
NBIM names global co-heads of fixed income trading
Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM) has appointed Pauli Mortenson and John Sullivan as global co-heads of fixed income trading, following the promotion of Malin...
Franklin Templeton to buy Putnam Investments
Franklin Templeton has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Putnam Investments from Great-West for approximately US$925 million largely in equities.
Great-West will become...
BGC reportedly shuts Lucera LUMEAlfa; preps FMX for soft launch
According to sources, BGC Partners has shuttered its pre-trade data business, Lucera LUMEAlfa, closing the final chapter on pre-trade data pioneer Algomi, and aligning...
Treasury futures open interest shows record uncertainty; surpasses 17 million contracts
Derivatives market operator, CME Group, reports that open interest (OI) in its US Treasury futures reached a record 17,222,551 contracts on 12 May, the...
Liontrust to acquire GAM
Liontrust, the specialist fund management group, has conditionally agreed to acquire GAM, the troubled investment management group, in an all share approach, with ordinary...
Candriam promotes bond chief to CIO
Candriam, the global multi-asset manager has appointed Nicolas Forest, Candriam’s global head of fixed income since 2013, as its new chief investment officer (CIO),...
Liontrust promotes McLoughlin and Hendry
Matthew McLoughlin (see profile here), partner and head of trading at Liontrust Asset Management, has been promoted to chief commercial officer, in addition to...
Eric Morrow joins Apollo Global Management
Eric Morrow has been named chief operations officer (COO) of trading at Apollo Global Management, an asset manager with US$550 billion of assets under...
BloombergGPT launches
Bloomberg has released a research paper detailing the development of BloombergGPT, a new large-scale generative artificial intelligence (AI) model.
This large language model (LLM)...
