Rules & Ratings: UnitedHealth Group credit outlooks downgraded to negative
AM Best has reassigned UnitedHealth Group’s credit ratings outlooks from stable to negative in anticipation of poor 2025 performance in its Medicare Advantage segment.
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Broadridge LTX rolls out BondGPT+ for enterprise financial services clients
Broadridge subsidiary LTX has launched BondGPT+, the enterprise version of its BondGPT application, which incorporates Broadridge’s patent-pending technology and OpenAI GPT-4 to answer complex...
Tradeweb to acquire Nasdaq’s eSpeed central limit order book
Electronic bond market operator, Tradeweb, has agreed to buy Nasdaq’s US fixed income electronic trading platform. The Nasdaq interdealer platform, formerly known as eSpeed,...
Octaura and Allvue push ahead on loan market electronification
Octaura and Allvue have partnered to boost electronic trading in loan markets, combining their solutions for alternative asset manager ICG.
Octaura, which provides electronic trading,...
Mizuho EMEA joins Neptune to distribute real-time axe data
Mizuho EMEA has joined Neptune Networks, the fixed income network for disseminating real-time axe data.
Neptune delivers axes from 32 of the leading dealers...
Technology: Can the EMS become a desktop trading venue?
Direct streaming of dealer prices could allow traders to bypass third party venues, if their desktop systems can be used to execute direct streams...
BondWave reports volume/liquidity paradox
Trading efficiency has driven down the costs of trading, and supported the ability to find liquidity, despite falling volumes, says BondWave’s Paul Daley, MD...
TP ICAP launches Bond Evaluated Price service
TP ICAP, the interdealer broker, has launched its first-ever set of evaluated price solutions focused on fixed income securities via its Data & Analytics...
JP Morgan exec appointed in Broadridge hiring spree
Munish Gautam has joined Broadridge’s Trading & Connectivity Solutions (BTCS) business as global head of trading platforms product management.
Based in London, Gautam reports to...
Double-digit growth in Deutsche Börse cash bonds
Despite the dominance of equities, bonds were 2024’s growth story in Deutsche Börse’s cash markets.
Börse Frankfurt recorded €818 million in December (up 29% YoY...
Market structure: The alternatives in market making
The DESK profiles five of the major electronic liquidity providers.
Given the strains on market making in fixed income, it is vital that buy-side desks...
Volumes up, e-trading down in US rates
Average daily notional volumes in US rates jumped 11 percentage points year-on-year (YoY) in October, reaching US$989 billion. Volatility was down by 40%, with...
