Bond-trading broker-dealer charged for allegedly bankrupting firm
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged Keith Wakefield, a former managing director and head of fixed income trading at IFS Securities, an...
MarketAxess connects to China via Bond Connect and CFETS
Bond market operator MarketAxess has launched a new trading channel for its global investors to access the China Interbank Bond Market (CIBM). Access is...
Aegon AM wins short-dated investment grade bond mandates
Aegon Asset Management’s reports it has won two UK clients totalling £325 million for its short-dated investment grade bond strategy, with a further mandate...
Bloomberg rival Money.Net partners OpenFin to scale up
By Shobha Prabhu-Naik.
Money.Net, a provider of live streaming financial market data, has selected desktop operating system OpenFin to deploy and deliver its software at...
Bond funds hit by massive fee discounts; active revenues predicted to fall
Bond funds are dropping their investment management fees by up to 37% - in the case of passive funds – from those of the...
Tom Porcelli named PGIM Fixed Income chief US economist
PGIM Fixed Income, a firm With US$793 billion in assets under management (AUM), has named Tom Porcelli chief US economist, effective 6 July 2023....
Risk profiling electronic market makers after Jane Street, Jump re-rated
Last year, Jane Street and Jump Trading had their rating outlooks upgraded by ratings agencies, as they overcame potential hurdles facing their businesses. Electronic...
Virtu signs up two bond ETF issuers for new NAV pricing tool
Exchange-traded fund (ETF) issuers Charles Schwab Investment Management and WisdomTree Asset Management are now using the eNAV ETF analytics tool, developed by electronic liquidity...
Bloomberg wins over AB and Capital Group with BVAL
AllianceBernstein (AB) and Capital Group have both selected Bloomberg's evaluated pricing service (BVAL) to benchmark and corroborate end-of-day values for US fixed income portfolio...
BlackRock veteran Mitchelson to join Bloomberg
Multiple sources have confirmed that Rob Mitchelson, formerly Europe, Middle East, Africa (EMEA) head of fixed income and FX trading at BlackRock, is to...
