Angela Lobo hired by Jefferies
Angela Lobo has joined Jefferies as head of eSales & sales chief operating officer (COO). Lobo, highly experienced and well-regarded in the electronic sales...
IG credit dealers go short before Fed cuts
As investors look to lock in higher yields ahead of Fed cuts, dealer net positions in IG corporate bonds of more than five years...
Market Structure: New risk and liquidity in the US Treasury market
Significant changes in counterparties and market structure have transformed US Treasury market activity.
Dealer-to-client trading has overtaken interdealer markets in volume traded according to analyst...
Analysis: Fixed income e-trading platforms still seeing outperformance in March
Major electronic bond trading platforms have reported record trading volumes across several sectors of fixed income, supporting the contention that increased adoption last year...
DirectBooks names team and launches advisory committee
DirectBooks, a sell-side consortium designing systems for the primary bond market, has named Yvonne Wang as chief operating officer, and Christopher Rodriguez as global...
MarketAxess industry viewpoint
Comparing portfolio trading and list RFQ TCA
By Gio Accurso, Grant Lowensohn and Jessica Hung, MarketAxess
Highlights and objectives
The MarketAxess Research team investigates any key...
FTSE Russell Launches Sustainable Fixed Income Indexes
The new index launches address the growing trend of integrating sustainable investment themes into fixed income indexes.
The new index series consists of the FTSE...
John Johnson joins UBS Asset Management
UBS Asset Management has appointed John Johnson as an execution trader.
Based in Chicago, he reports to Theodore Drury, regional head of trading, Americas.
Johnson has...
Will the EC ban electronic bilateral bond trading?
The broadening definition of ‘multilateral’ is at risk of capturing all trading if traders do not speak out.
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA)...
Advances in corporate bond e-trading: Five lessons learned
By Constantinos Antoniades, Global Head of Fixed Income at Liquidnet
Since early 2015 we have seen a steady acceleration in the migration towards electronic trading...
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...
Etrading Software and Artis Holdings’ electronic loans platform is live
Capital markets system provider Etrading Software, and electronic loans technology specialist Artis Holdings, have completed the opening bids wanted in competition (BWIC) process via...
