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,...
Morgan Stanley: Fed buying programme has benefits beyond direct purchases
Analysis of the Federal Reserve’s Secondary Market Corporate Credit Facility (SMCCF) by Morgan Stanley analysts has found that its purchases of exchange traded funds...
Tradeweb reports high volumes continuing into April
Market operator Tradeweb has reported average daily volume (ADV) of US$763.4 billion in April across its electronic marketplaces for rates, credit, equities and money...
ICE freezes bond indices until 30th April
The Intercontinental Exchange’s (ICE’s) ICE Data Indices (IDI) has postponed the rebalancing of all the ICE and ICE BofA indices for bond, preferred and...
Bloomberg launches RMB-denominated Liquid China Credit Index
Bloomberg has launched the Bloomberg Barclays Liquid China Credit (LCC) Index, designed to track the liquid, tradable portion of the RMB-denominated credit bond market....
SSGA: Treasuries, convertibles and EM on the cards for 2019
By Vineet Naik.
State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) is predicting that US Treasuries, convertible bonds and emerging market (EM) debt will see increased investment in...
ESMA: Hundreds of bond funds suspended redemptions in record-breaking March sell-off
A new report by the European Securities and Markets Authority has laid out how systemic risk might be created through funds’ inability to process...
BlackRock launches first BuyWrite fixed income ETFs
BlackRock launched a first-of-its-kind suite of fixed income ETFs that provide access to buy-write investment strategies on baskets of fixed income securities: the iShares...
April showers on e-trading platform growth
Last month saw electronic trading platforms continue to grow, but with activity hit by the concerns around financials, leading multi-asset market operator, Tradeweb, to...
Fed: No bond ETF fees for BlackRock; JP Morgan still AWOL
Under the new Federal Reserve asset purchasing programme, BlackRock, the asset manager which is acting as the trading function for the programme, will charge...
