Complex environment requires multi-model approach to data science
In fixed income, the most effective investment and trading models can be those built to withstand uncertainty. Speaking at the Fixed Income Leaders’ Summit...
MTS BondVision and B2SCAN: Tackling the liquidity challenge head-on
MTS BondVision and B2SCAN are partnering to streamline the process of execution in corporate bonds. By combining liquidity discovery with order matching, the trading...
John Rothrock named head of DirectPool
CastleOak Securities, the New York-based boutique investment bank, has hired John Rothrock III as managing director and head of DirectPool, its Fixed Income Electronic...
UK to allow shorting of government debt and sovereign CDS
The UK Government has said it will remove requirements currently placed on investors when taking out short positions in sovereign debt or sovereign credit...
Corporate bond trading platform LTX picks 7 Chord for intraday pricing
Broadridge Financial Solutions has selected 7 Chord, an independent predictive pricing and analytics provider, as the source for intraday corporate bond prices on its...
Liquidnet sees surge in e-trading activity, ‘record-breaking’ week for Europe’s primary market
Liquidnet has reported a record-breaking week for electronic new issues trading for the week commencing 8 January. Records were broken in terms of volumes,...
High Yield did not get the ‘trade size’ memo
High yield trade sizes are continuing to rise in 2024, and its bonds continue to show signs of increasingly manual trading. As bond markets...
Repo market stress prompts calls for central bank support
Could central bank intervention bypass sell-side intermediaries, if they only act as agents not risk takers? David Wigan reports.
The stresses in the US repo...
TS Imagine expands RiskSmart X margin calculation abilities
TS Imagine has boosted its sell-side financial risk management solution RiskSmart X with the CCP Margin Calculator.
Launched last year, RiskSmart X allows users to...
Liontrust to acquire GAM
Liontrust, the specialist fund management group, has conditionally agreed to acquire GAM, the troubled investment management group, in an all share approach, with ordinary...
US electronic platforms’ credit activity cools further in
Average daily volume reported on TRACE for US investment grade (IG) and high yield (HY) dropped a further 9% month-on-month (MoM) in June to...
William Dulude joins Clear Street, plus new management appointments
Clear Street, the prime broker and capital markets infrastructure provider has named William Dulude as chief product officer; Prerak Sanghvi as vice president of...
