FILS in Barcelona: Should you be switching from high yield bonds to leveraged loans?
Thierry De Vergnes, managing director of acquisition debt funds at Amundi, presented a compelling case at FILS 2023 for why high yield loans are...
Portfolio trading just keeps growing
Portfolio trading has grown so much, so quickly that it’s even surprised us. When we first launched the functionality, which allows traders to package...
Erste Group: Adding valued regional trading expertise to your execution capabilities
Erste Group as regional market maker and primary dealer for the Central & Eastern European market is supporting electronic trading and regional expertise for both...
Exclusive: David Kalita new CEO at Quantitative Brokers
David Kalita,
CEO, Quantitative Brokers.
David Kalita has been named chief executive officer at Quantitative Brokers (QB),the provider of execution algorithms and data-driven analytics for...
Investortools expands pricing capabilities with ficc.ai integration
The Investortools Dealer Network is set to expand its pricing capabilities by integrating ficc.ai’s live municipal pricing data.
By connecting to ficc.ai, clients will be...
Not average: Trade sizes in 2024
Looking at the average trade sizes for high yield and investment grade bonds, across Europe and the US in 2024, we can see considerable...
On The Desk: Christoph Hock: On building efficiency
Union Investment’s development of a multi-asset trading team and segregation of high and low touch business is allowing it to focus trading resource where...
EMMI drops Euribor+ methodology due to low transaction volumes
The European Money Markets Institute (EMMI), a non-profit group established by national banking associations in the European Union, has dropped the Euribor+ methodology, designed to...
A tale of two metrics – US IG corporate bond market liquidity in 2022
By Julien Alexandre, 12 October 2022
Corporate Bond Market Distress Index
The NY Fed recently launched the Corporate Bond Market Distress Index and backfilled it all...
Exclusive: Mediobanca’s rapidly growing credit business adds Marco Cravero as head of flow
Marco Cravero has joined Mediobanca in Milan as executive director and head of fixed income flow, as the bank seeks to expand its existing...
FILS in Barcelona: What blockchain can do for bond markets
What progress is being made in the world of blockchain, and how is DLT technology transforming the world of digital bonds, crypto trading, and...
Review: Mixed bond trading revenues in choppy first quarter
Banks have seen mixed results from bond trading in the first quarter of 2023, across credit and rates, while electronic trading platforms have seen...
