Helen Burgess joins S&P Global
S&P Global has appointed Helen Burgess as sales director for the market intelligence division.
Burgess has close to three decades of industry experience, most recently...
Fed begins buying bond ETFs
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York has begun to buy fixed income exchange-traded funds (ETFs) via its Secondary Market Corporate Credit Facility (SMCCF)....
ECB corporate bond programme winding down?
ECB corporate bond programme winding down?
Deutsche Bank analysts have noted indications that the European Central Bank (ECB) is winding down its Corporate Sector Purchase...
Funding the green transition
How on God’s green earth are fixed-income portfolio managers supposed to negotiate the minefield of sustainable investing, given the myriad pitfalls and bear traps...
European Markets Choice Award Winner: Best in AI – LTX
First mover advantage in a wave of change can be enormous, as LTX has demonstrated with BondGPT
Bond trading platform LTX has launched into an...
Fink: BlackRock’s private credit strategy ties Prequin and Aladdin
In BlackRock’s second quarter (Q2) earnings call, CEO and chairman, Larry Fink, has set out the firm’s vision of expansion into private credit markets.
He...
Tradeweb sees August ADV jump 53.9%, MarketAxess up 39.6%
Trading platforms MarketAxess, Tradeweb and Trumid saw substantial increases in their average daily volumes for August compared to the same period last year. MarketAxess...
ESMA consults on MiFIR trading obligation for derivatives
By Sobia Hamid.
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published today a consultation paper regarding its draft technical standards specifying the trading obligation for derivatives under...
Primary markets: Give me some credit: Outlook for bond issuance in 2023
New issues provide liquidity and price points for bond traders; we assess the prospects for the year ahead.
As the cost of borrowing continues to...
E-trading static but competition rises in US rates
Although US rates trading volumes were up 20% year-on-year, the proportion of that volume e-traded remained static. “We don’t expect this metric to move...
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...
MeTheMoneyShow – Episode 10
Dan Barnes and Lynn Strongin Dodds discuss reports from the week past, ranging from how asset managers need to re-think their operating models to...
