Origination: EC issues €11bn dual-tranche EU-Bond; books top €175bn
The European Commission raised €11 billion in its ninth syndicated deal of 2025, via a €5 billion tap of the 13 December 2032 EU-bond...
S&P Global launches credit risk research chatbot
S&P Global has launched a chatbot on its S&P Capital IQ Pro market intelligence platform in an effort to simplify the credit risk research...
Green bond issuance off to strong start in 2021
As a result of the stronger-than-expected green bond issuance so far in 2021, NN Investment partners has raised its projection for full-year issuance to...
TMPG meets to discuss key challenges in the Treasury market structure
The Treasury Market Practices Group (TMPG), an industry roundtable coordinated by the US Federal Reserve (The Fed) met on Tuesday 19 October to discuss...
People: Hunter leaves MarketAxess; Louchard at AXA IM
Nichola Hunter has left MarketAxess as head of its rates business. Hunter joined the firm in 2020 when it acquired government bond marketplace LiquidityEdge,...
Office of Financial Research: Treasury basis trades could pose systemic risk
A new paper from the Office of Financial Research (OFR) has cast doubt on the idea that basis trades increased the lack of liquidity...
Industry viewpoint: Forging fixed income’s future
How technology is enabling data-driven execution and analytics.
In recent years, the electronification of fixed income (FI) markets has been followed by the development of...
Can primary markets deflate?
Inflation levels could have a direct impact on volume of work – and therefore operational pressure – on buy-side trading desks.
Managing the process of...
SEC’s issuer proposal on cyber security risk ‘a step further than Sarbanes Oxley’
US market regulator, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), has proposed amendments to its rules to enhance and standardise disclosures regarding cybersecurity risk management,...
Trump’s SEC backs crypto with Uyeda as acting chairman
Mark Uyeda has been named acting chairman of the SEC.
The Republican commissioner replaces outgoing chair Gary Gensler, and is expected to be in place...
AxeTrading founders step back from management
AxeTrading has announced that the founders of the firm, together with other members of the Board, have agreed that in order to address “the...
Portfolio trading sees first decline of 2025
Capped estimated investment grade (IG) and high yield (HY) portfolio trading volumes were the highest year-to-date in April 2025, representing approximately 10% of total...
