Lone Star State drives over $44bn in new US munis at November elections
Voters across the US greenlit more than US$44 billion in new muni bonds at November’s elections, with 55% of all mooted bond measures approved...
FILS 2021: Portfolio trading up threefold
Portfolio trading in fixed income has grown threefold in two years, data from Flow Traders reveal.
Speaking at the 2021 Fixed Income Leaders Summit (FILS)...
Tradeweb saw ADV hit US$1 trillion in January 2021
Market operator Tradeweb has reported its total trading volume for January was US$20 trillion across its electronic marketplaces for rates, credit, equities and money...
‘Alternative’ rating agencies’ early Greece upgrades led Moodys and S&P
Greek spreads over German debt have tightened from 270 basis points to 70 basis points since mid 2022. Non-traditional rating agencies like Scope ratings...
IMTC platform onboards three new clients
IMTC, the provider of fixed income investment management technology, has announced three firms – BLB&B Advisors, LMCG Investments, and Reynders McVeigh Capital Management –...
EBA publishes market risk and transaction determination standards
The European Banking Authority’s (EBA) has published the final draft regulatory technical standards (RTS) on how to identify the main risk driver and determine...
Cary Eggleston leaves Canaccord Genuity for StoneX
Cary Eggleston has joined StoneX Group as a senior emerging markets credit trader, just four months after his appointment as head of CEEMEA fixed...
Bloomberg machine learning pricing solution enhances fixed income trading visibility
Bloomberg’s Intraday BVAL (IBVAL) Front Office is now available to Bloomberg Terminal customers, as well as users of Bloomberg’s real-time streaming market data feed,...
Senior fixed income trader joins Bloomberg’s primary markets team
Keenan Choy, formerly a primary markets fixed income trader with Wellington Asset Management in the US, has been active in developing primary market processes...
JP Morgan announces global structuring management leadership
JP Morgan has reorganised its global structuring management team, following the expansion of Rui Fernandes’s role as head of global structuring, earlier this year.
In...
Majdalani joins BNPP
Ray Majdalani has joined BNP Paribas as an emerging markets credit trader. He is based in London.
BNP Paribas reported €10 billion in net banking...
Best practice in credit TCA measures
The need to optimise execution quality is increased as buy-side firms seek to optimise all-to-all trading, and therefore price making, in credit. Transaction cost...
