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Tradeweb announces first fully electronic SOFR swap spread trade

Market operator Tradeweb reports it has completed the first fully electronic institutional Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR) swap spread trade. BlackRock and JP Morgan...

MarketAxess adds directional and currency functionality to portfolio trading

Bond market operator MarketAxess has added new portfolio trading functionality to its platform, to better integrate with a full suite of trading solutions. The MarketAxess...

State Street serves up ‘Cods and Chips’ in European bond market rigging case

State Street has helped to uncover chatrooms, including one called "Cods and Chips" that are alleged to have been used by sell-side traders to...

Sean George joins Millennium Capital Partners

Sean George has been named portfolio manager at Grace Court Capital, a credit fund division of Millennium Capital Partners, which has US$52 billion in...

Capital Group appoints Carpenzano to fixed income team in Europe

Capital Group, which has more than US$441 billion in fixed income assets under management (AUM) of its total US$2.4 trillion AUM, has hired of...

Scotiabank, Rabo Securities and Huntington Capital Markets join DirectBooks

DirectBooks, the capital markets consortium founded to optimise the bond issuance process has signed up Scotiabank, Rabo Securities and Huntington Capital Markets to join...

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...

Barclays now streaming prices into MarketAxess Live Markets

Barclays has committed to become a dedicated market maker and is actively contributing streaming prices for US investment grade corporate bonds to the MarketAxess...

Trumid collaborating with Jefferies in EM credit trading

Bond market operator, Trumid, is collaborating with Jefferies in emerging markets (EM) credit trading. Jefferies will use Trumid’s Attributed Trading (AT) protocol and workflow solutions...