IHS Markit: Investor Access doubles investor use
By Pia Hecher.
Information and analytics provider IHS Markit announced that 320 investment firms are participating on its Investor Access platform. The number of buy-side...
Onbrane launches primary debt market blockchain simulator
Onbrane, a provider of short-term debt market digitalisation technologies, has developed a primary debt market blockchain simulator, shadowing real transactions in a virtual blockchain...
European HY bond issuance saw 45% increase in 2023
High yield bond issuance reached €66 billion in 2023, up from €45 billion in 2022 which had been a record low.
The findings come...
TS Imagine EMS integrates with Appital’s bookbuilding platform
TS Imagine, the trading, portfolio and risk management solutions provider, has integrated its multi-asset execution management system (EMS) with Appital’s bookbuilding platform to provide...
TMPG: US Treasuries supply may strain market makers; Fed guidance a concern
Newly released minutes from the Federal Reserve’s Treasury Market Practices Group, an industry-led advisory body on market structure and trading, has indicated concern about...
ING issues first commercial paper trade via Onbrane
ING Bank has completed its first Euro Commercial Paper (CP) transaction, issued by Dutch company Royal Friesland Campina, on the Onbrane platform for primary...
Bond Origination Technologies set to launch early 2021
Bond Origination Technologies (Bots), a London-based financial technology start-up for the primary debt capital markets (DCM), has completed its latest fundraising round, formed its...
Bank of England maintains stock levels of government and corporate bonds
By Flora McFarlane.
The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has voted to maintain the stock of government bond purchases at £435 billion and...
Exclusive: Stacey Parsons joins PrimaryBid
Capital markets technology firm, PrimaryBid, has appointed Stacey Parsons as managing director and head of fixed income. Parsons’ appointment is expected to accelerate PrimaryBid’s...
Balls calls for UK to adopt a more risk-assertive culture
Ed Balls, former economic secretary to the UK Treasury & shadow chancellor, has called for the UK to adopt a risk-positive culture in order...
