Jude Driscoll named MetLife Investment Management president
MetLife Investment Management (MIM) has appointed Jude Driscoll as president, effective 1 September.
In the Philadelphia-based role, Driscoll is responsible for MIM’ strategy and business...
Ex-RBC director joins ItauBBA emerging markets team
Conor Hails has joined the emerging markets rates and foreign exchange sales team at ItauBBA. He is based in New York.
ItauBBA, part of the...
Symphony acquires natural language processing platform Amenity Analytics
Symphony, the market infrastructure and communications platform, has acquired Amenity Analytics, a natural language processing (NLP) data analytics solution. Amenity Analytics is designed to...
Lindsey Spink joins American Century Investments as co-head, global fixed income trading
Lindsey Spink has been named co-head of global fixed income trading at American Century Investments (ACI).
He will report to Charles Tan and John...
PBI integrates 7 Chord’s BondDroid fixed income pricing
PBI has integrated 7 Chord’s near real-time, delayed, and end-of-day bond prices for corporate, sovereign and government bonds within its investment management systems, which...
OpenYield Trading prints first trade
Broker-dealer and alternative trading system OpenYield Trading has launched, printing its first trade.
OpenYield is designed to make access to the bond market easier and...
Henriques poached by HilltopSecurities
HilltopSecurities has named Drew Henriques co-head of High Yield Municipal Trading, having poached him from Citi. He had been a high yield municipal trader...
The implication of Europe’s falling volumes
An ominous sign in Europe’s secondary markets for dealers, as volumes remain in the doldrums.
Anecdotally, buy-side firms report volumes are up to 20%...
Now the buy side can sell bonds to the Fed – via MarketAxess
Bond market operator, MarketAxess, has been designated as an Eligible Seller for the central bank's Secondary Market Corporate Credit Facility (SMCCF) by the Federal...
October e-trading bond platforms; rates up, credit mixed
Electronic bond trading and data platform MarketAxess has reported its monthly trading volume for October 2021 was US$619 billion with credit trading down 4%...
Amundi US and Victory Capital to merge in new 15-year partnership
European asset manager Amundi is set to become a strategic shareholder in global asset management firm Victory Capital, following a signed Memorandum of Understanding...
Greenan joins Aquis
John Greenan has joined Aquis Exchange as director of technologies.
Based in London, Greenan is responsible for the sales and contracting activities of the firm’s...
