Ioana Scripcaru poached by Citadel Securities
Ioana Scripcaru has been named head of sterling trading at Citadel Securities. The sell-side veteran built nearly a decade of experience in the rates...
Editorial: Oversight of US bond markets is broken
Oversight of the US bond markets is broken. The world’s sixth largest bank by assets, JP Morgan, was able to manipulate the US Treasury...
Dom Holland joins LedgerEdge
LedgerEdge, the distributed ledger ecosystem for corporate bond trading, has appointed senior fixed income specialist Dom Holland to the role of business development for...
ICMA: Buy side struggled to make margin calls as repo dried up
A new report, ‘European repo market and the COVID-19 crisis’ published by the International Capital Markets Association, has found that some buy-side firms had...
Tariff tantrum: Bond investors sit on hands while market makers are busy
Sell side trading desks have reported elevated levels of activity today following the US threat to impose tariffs of 25% on Canadian and Mexican...
Trading outsourcer Tourmaline hires three senior executives
Outsourced trading solutions firm Tourmaline Partners has added Alex Goodman and Matt Sindell as managing directors, and Darren Mazzuca has joined as director of...
Why US and European exchanges face very different landscapes
While European authorities try to push more trading back onto stock exchanges, which have entered a period of consolidation, US regulators are angling for...
Dealers face crunch on platform trading costs
As bid-ask spreads tighten and fees rise, dealers question making markets in credit.
It does not take a quant to understand that tighter bid-ask spreads...
People: Hunter leaves MarketAxess; Louchard at AXA IM
Nichola Hunter has left MarketAxess as head of its rates business. Hunter joined the firm in 2020 when it acquired government bond marketplace LiquidityEdge,...
Nick Garrow joins Trading Technologies as EVP multi-asset and buy side
Trading software, infrastructure and data solutions provider, Trading Technologies International, has hired London-based industry veteran Nick Garrow in the new position of EVP multi-asset...
