Ancoa post-mortem: Spend was over four times greater than revenue
Ancoa, the troubled market surveillance firm that went into administration on 5 May 2017, had an average monthly spend of £450,000 in 2017, or...
Granit Funds hires Erlandsson as head of fixed income from AP4
Granit Funds has recruited Ulf Erlandsson as its head of fixed income starting in August. He comes from the Fourth Swedish National Pension Fund (AP4) where...
Bondecosystem and TransFICC partner for bond market connectivity
Outsourced connectivity specialist Bondecosystem has partnered with financial technology provider TransFICC, to deliver a low-latency execution and connectivity service to electronic fixed income venues.
The...
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...
Hermes appoints Andrew Jackson as head of Fixed Income
Hermes Investment Management, which has £30.6 billion in assets under management, appointed Andrew Jackson as head of Fixed Income, reporting to Eoin Murray, head...
Trading systems FIXed to Ipreo for bond issuance
Primary market specialist Ipreo has launched a FIX-messaging based system for integrating the Ipreo Investor Access platform, which allows investors to electronically submit orders directly to...
Ancoa refuses to comment on rumoured CTO departure
Ancoa has said it will not comment on a unconfirmed report that founder and chief technology officer, Andrew Louth, is to leave the surveillance...
VedBrat named global head of trading for BlackRock
Supurna VedBrat, currently deputy head of trading and co-head for Electronic Trading & Market Structure at asset manager BlackRock will become global head of...
Head of FI trading Harrington departs BMO Global Asset Management
BMO Global Asset Management has confirmed that Marc Harrington has left the firm as head of fixed income dealing. Harrington is a highly experienced...
‘Flash Boys’ hits US treasuries market
An old-fashioned trading model is giving HFT firms the edge over dealers and funds on the interdealer treasury markets, writes Dan Barnes.
A number of...
