Malin Norberg named co-chief investment officer for NBIM asset strategies
Malin Norberg has been appointed new co-chief investment officer for asset strategies at Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM).
Due to the continued growth of...
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...
The Book: Clearstream’s D7 hits €10 billion in digital issuances
Clearstream’s digital securities platform, D7, has reached €10 billion in issuance volumes. The firm reports that the service completes up to 15,000 new digital...
FCA estimates revenue from UK consolidated tape to be £4 million over five years
Attendees at the Fixed Income Leaders Summit in Amsterdam were told to get ready for the arrival of the consolidated tape in Europe, with...
Finanstilsynet: Portfolio manager “abused his position” by flipping bonds and self-trading
The senior portfolio manager for Norwegian investment firm Kraft Finans, Øivind Thorstensen, was piggy-backing on client investment in new bond issues, in order to...
TS Imagine launches cross-asset investment and trading platform for hedge funds
TS Imagine the trading, portfolio, and risk management platform provider, has launched TS One, a cross-asset class, software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform, designed for investing...
APAC trading recovery is far from even
The recovery from last year’s market sell-off and the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic appears to have been marked in many regions, with volumes for both...
EM in ‘limbo’ provides trading and pricing challenges
Emerging market bond funds have seen outflows continue to slow significantly, with Morgan Stanley’s analysts estimating it at US$1.8 billion, equating to about 0.42%...
This Week: Chris Collins, Lazard Asset Management
Lazard Asset Management: ‘European Trading Clock Needs Renewed Scrutiny’
As a massive portion of European trading takes place after US markets open, Chris Collins, equity...
Insights and analysis: Morgan Stanley 2025 – ‘Timing Is Everything’ across asset classes
Morgan Stanley’s outlook for 2025 finds a “still-moderate macro environment” with the mood heading towards deregulation, which it notes is largely is constructive for...
ICMA: Fully-automatic credit trading has grown; block liquidity has reduced
The International Capital Markets Association has found 44% of buy-side trading desks have increased their use of rules-based, fully automated electronic execution compared with...
Bank of England to reduce gilt stock by £100bn
The Bank of England’s (BoE) Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has voted to reduce the stock of gilts held in the Asset Purchase Facility (APF)...
