Morgan Stanley exec joins Jefferies in Asia
Vivian Li has joined Jefferies as head of distressed trading and credit analytics for Asia. She is based in Hong Kong.
The firm reported US$289k...
BME FI turnover spikes, SIX Group drops
Despite BME’s fixed income trading turnover was up almost twofold year-on-year (YoY) in April, SIX Group saw a 7.3% month-on-month (MoM) decline in fixed...
Morningstar analysis shows fixed income funds under the cosh with thin liquidity
According to a new report from market data specialist, Morningstar, the unprecedented interest-rate hikes across developed markets has left most bond categories deep in...
Aegon AM wins short-dated investment grade bond mandates
Aegon Asset Management’s reports it has won two UK clients totalling £325 million for its short-dated investment grade bond strategy, with a further mandate...
Liquidnet adds trading in the South African bond market
Block and agency trading specialist Liquidnet, a TP ICAP company, is partnering with TP ICAP South Africa to support bond trading.
The firm reports...
Deshpande swaps T Rowe Price for Vanguard
Amit Deshpande has joined Vanguard as global head of quantitative research for fixed income.
He is based in Philadelphia, and reports to global head of...
Europe’s incongruous drop in IG bid-ask spreads
European investment grade (IG) credit traders will have seen average bid-ask spreads declining since April, with the median average (typically about €0.03 cents lower...
Market reports: Algomi to be acquired
Market reports are that pre-trade data provider Algomi will be bought by interdealer broker BGC. Stu Taylor, formerly the CEO of Algomi, joined BGC...
Coalition Greenwich: E-trading boom to outpace market growth in 2025
Nearly half of US investment grade corporate bond trading was electronic in 2024 – and this is only the start, Coalition Greenwich says.
In the...
How a credit sell-off might unfold…
Someone, somewhere, is cooking the books
In 2007, I explained the risks of cumulative capital market investments to a friend as a series of interconnected...
Digital bond issuance: From zero to US$1,500,000,000 in 12 months
S&P Global Market Intelligence has assessed that the digital bond market “remains a work in progress” as new bond issuance focuses on testing in...
US inflation hits its highest level in three decades
Jonathan Baltora, head of sovereign, inflation and FX at AXA Investment Managers says, “US inflation rising by 0.9% in just one month brings it...
