Christian Laloe joins KNG Securities to support Latin American growth
KNG Securities, the fixed income investment banking boutique, has appointed Latin American (LatAm) specialist Christian Laloe as head of debt capital markets and special...
Promotions at Fidelity and SSGA
James Lenton has been named head trader at Fidelity Investments in Hong Kong, where he has worked as a trader since 2017.
A spokesperson for...
FICC sponsored services use rises as central clearing looms
DTCC’s Fixed Income Clearing Corporation’s (FICC) Sponsored Service volumes reached US$2 trillion in 2024, up 83% year-on-year.
As firms prepare for new requirements around US...
Portfolio trading breaks into new markets
Emerging markets are adopting PT to add efficiency to liquidity sourcing, writes Matt Walters of MarketAxess.
Portfolio trading has seen a lot of success and...
Le Saout named portfolio manager at ADIA
Tanguy Le Saout has been appointed portfolio manager (PM) for macro fixed income Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA), a sovereign wealth fund with a...
How the ICMA got firm on bond pricing
Buy-side traders have long decried the lack of executable price in bond markets. For the best part of a decade the electrification of these...
Nicanor Trano promoted at BNP Paribas
BNP Paribas has appointed Nicanor Trano as head of AUD & USD rates trading for APAC.
Trano has 20 years of industry experience, and has...
Cifu steps back at Virtu
Co-founder Douglas Cifu has retired from Virtu Financial, with chief technology officer Aaron Simons taking on the CEO position.
Cifu will remain an advisor to...
Focus on China’s property sector
The charts we focus on this week are from CreditSights, and look at the issuance and outstanding bonds for Evergrande, the Chinese property developer...
Europe IG credit trade size collapsed and has not recovered
Corporate bond traders has seen the average trade size reducing in Europe across both investment grade and high yield, suggesting that block trading is...
FICC marks new GSD daily activity record of US$9.2 trillion
The Government Securities Division (GSD) of the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation’s (DTCC) Fixed Income Clearing Corporation (FICC) cleared US$9.2 trillion in daily activity...
FIX Trading Conference in September will be virtual and global
FIX Trading Community, the non-profit, industry-driven standards body will deliver its EMEA Trading Conference, scheduled for the 18 September 2020, in an immersive virtual...
