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...
Impact of ICBC hack on trading US Treasuries
Buy-side traders reported limited impacted from the ransomware hack on Industrial and Commercial Bank of China that occurred on Wednesday in US trading hours,...
LGAM bolsters London team
Legal & General Asset Management has made two appointments in its London office, with Ryan Lee named head of liquidity distribution and Euan Martin...
ICE best execution service doubles coverage
Intercontinental Exchange, Inc., a leading global provider of data, technology and market infrastructure, announced enhancements to its Best Execution service, which more than doubles...
UBS AM: Fixed income is starting to price better growth outcomes
By Evan Brown and Meena Bassily of UBS Asset Management
Consensus growth forecasts for the US and other advanced economies have been
repeatedly revised higher since...
Partnering to revolutionise the buy-side trading experience – Case study
An MTS case study on delivering quality corporate bond data through partnership, collaboration, and integration
This case study presents just one example of how a...
AFME update: European HY bond issuance fell nearly 60% year-on-year
A new report by AFME found that the primary high yield bond market decelerated significantly in Europe at the start of this year.
High yield...
UK bond tape tender confirmation pushed to midnight tonight
Confirmation of the UK’s bond consolidated tape provider has been delayed until midnight tonight, its second extension, indicating open questions around the award still...
Broadridge patents underlying BondGPT mechanism
Broadridge has been awarded a US patent for the mechanism behind its BondGPT and BondGPT+ solutions.
Through the solutions, multiple AI agents automatically retrieve and...
FILS USA 2022: Boosting automation and innovation
The attention of buy-side portfolio managers and traders at the FILS conference in Nashville last week was focused on ways to better manage inefficiency...
Juggling the growth in CUSIPs
If the population of a country increased by 50% since 2014, you would think a housing crisis was likely.
Yet in the year The DESK...
FILS 2022: Deferral times priority for consolidated tape plans – EC’s Lueder
Plans for a consolidated tape for fixed income markets in Europe hinge on the “urgent priority” of harmonising post-trade publication windows – keeping them...
















