Mike O’Brien made co-director global income at Eaton Vance
Michael O’Brien has been promoted to co-director global income at Eaton Vance, from his role as director of global trading, which he held since...
AXA IM: Credit downgrades increases concentration and liquidity risk in index investment
A decrease in the average credit quality of fixed income indices and intensifying competition for high quality assets present increasingly serious challenges for UK...
IHS Markit claims Liquidnet clients see transaction cost savings of 87%
By Shobha Prabhu-Naik.
Information provider IHS Markit claims that buy-side firms trading all-to-all receive 87% transaction cost savings, by trading on Liquidnet Fixed Income.
IHS Markit...
Raiffeisen partners with AxeTrading and Integral to boost bond trading efficiency
Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI) has partnered with AxeTrading, the fixed income trading software company, and Integral, the FX technology provider, to deliver a new...
RBC hires Sayers from Citi to lead HY sales
Joe Sayers has joined RBC Capital Markets from Citi as head of high yield and loan sales, based in London and reporting to Janet...
Goldman Sachs adds streaming firm pricing to MarketAxess’ Live Markets order book
Bond market operator MarketAxess has announced that Goldman Sachs has committed to become a dedicated market maker and is actively contributing streaming prices for...
Can you guess which market has seen the greatest fall in bid-ask spreads, year-to-date?
Two weeks ago, we asked what was crushing the US investment grade (IG) market’s bid-ask spread. However there has been an even greater reduction...
Buy side issues framework to standardise bond issuance
The Credit Roundtable, a buy-side lobby group for bondholder protection has issued an ‘Investment Grade Primary Best Practices Framework’ designed to improve bond issuance.
The...
Mystery surrounds APA failure in European bond markets
European bond market participants are keen to know which post-trade data reporter, known as an approved publication arrangement (APA), has ‘data quality issues’ resulting...
Exclusive: Spencer Lee joins TS Imagine as chief markets officer; sets out strategy
TS Imagine, the trading, portfolio, and risk management system provider, has announced Spencer Lee is joining as chief markets officer, to lead the firm’s...
