DirectBooks names team and launches advisory committee
DirectBooks, a sell-side consortium designing systems for the primary bond market, has named Yvonne Wang as chief operating officer, and Christopher Rodriguez as global...
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...
MarketAxess’s 2020 revenues up nearly 35%
Electronic bond market operator, MarketAxess, has reported revenues in 2020 were up 34.8% on 2019 to US$689.1 million, compared to US$511.4 million for the...
Lars Salmon: On internal strength
Fidelity International has homegrown internal expertise and tech, to support a fixed income trading team that can weather all markets.
Lars Salmon is head of...
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...
Meraki Global Advisors hires fixed income trader from Loomis, Sayles, & Company
Meraki Global Advisors has hired Meghan Siripurapu as a managing director at the firm’s Park City Headquarters in the USA, to meet the growing...
MarketAxess EM extends coverage to Egypt, Hong Kong and Serbia
Bond market operator and data provider MarketAxess has added Egypt (EGP), Hong Kong (HKD) and Serbia (RSD) to its Emerging Markets (EM) local markets...
Arteria AI gets strategic investment co-led by Citi SPRINT and BDC Capital
Arteria AI, an enterprise digital documentation specialist, has received strategic investments from Citi Spread Products Investment Technologies (SPRINT), the strategic investing arm of the...
Eurex and Newedge veteran joins bond issuance fintech
Jean-Luc Savignac has been named USA country manager at Onbrane, a negotiation and issuance platform, aiming at tokenising debt products and managing their life...
Swedish broker shut for pushing risky bonds and illicit issuer payments
Swedish market regulator, Finansinspektionen (FI), has revoked all permits for Nord Fondkommission AB (Nord FK) to continue trading.
Nord FK is a securities firm whose...