Vanguard and BlackRock get stuck into active bond funds following ‘horror show’ in 2022
In a new paper entitled ‘Active Fixed Income Perspectives Q3 2022: Bonds are back’ the fixed income team at investment giant Vanguard, led by...
Katharine Furber switches to FX at Bloomberg
Bloomberg has named Katharine Furber as global head of FX trading.
Furber has been with the firm since 2010, most recently as global head of...
Analysis: Impact of debt issuance on sell-side revenues in Q1
Strong bond issuance in the first quarter (Q1) is galvanising performance of debt capital market teams at investment banks, in turn creating optimism amongst...
Dangayach leads APAC DCM
Citi has named Deepak Dangayach as co-head of debt capital markets (DCM) for APAC as it seeks to build out its presence in the...
Trumid sees record volumes
Credit trading platform Trumid, announced a record month of trading volume in November on the company’s electronic bond trading platform. During November, Trumid’s single-day...
Portfolio trading just keeps growing
Portfolio trading has grown so much, so quickly that it’s even surprised us. When we first launched the functionality, which allows traders to package...
Location will determine bid-ask spreads for European bond traders
Where European bond traders and their counterparties are sat could affect the size of bid-ask spreads they are shown, thanks to a split in...
Traders adopt automated workflows as eTrading expands from swaps into credit
In March TransFICC launched its eTrading service for interest rate swap (IRS) trading. We speak with Steve Toland, co-founder of TransFICC, about client adoption,...
European Women in Finance: Nandini Sukumar, finding a voice
Nandini Sukumar, CEO of World Federation of Exchanges talks to Lynn Strongin Dodds about vision, strategy and consensus building.
In the five years since Nandini...
November’s bumper month for fixed income e-trading
Electronic trading platforms have reported a bumper November for fixed income trading, with CME reporting interest rate average daily volume (ADV) up by 42%;...
Chapel joins BMO Capital Markets
Florian Chapel has joined BMO Capital Markets as a portfolio manager and tactical trader.
In the London-based role, he specialises in long/short credit and credit...
Sabina Awan departs Fidelity International
Sabina Awan has left Fidelity International after 17 years with the company.
Commenting on her departure via LinkedIn, Awan said: “I am deeply grateful for...
