Case Study – BlueCove’s expansive view of fixed income markets
BlueCove’s expansive view of fixed income markets.
Recognising the need for smarter ways to assess market dynamics and connect with pools of liquidity, BlueCove has been...
Balancing short and long term liquidity provision
Best execution on a trade-by-trade basis is too simplistic a measure of liquidity provision; The DESK looks at best practice for longer term liquidity...
Ilane Attias joins Citadel Securities
Citadel Securities has appointed Ilane Attias as head of continental Europe rates sales.
Attias was previously a managing director at Bank of America Merrill Lynch...
Video: Trends in Fixed Income Trading: Metamodern Meditations on the Future Market Structure
Russell Dinnage, managing consultant at GreySpark Partners, talks about how the structure of trading in the fixed income market could change over the next...
Return of volatility – will liquidity shifts bend or break US Treasuries?
Disclosed trading and internalisation are increasing as liquidity is wrung out of dealers and electronic market-makers. Chris Hall reports.
As January’s storms ripped holes in...
The ‘venue’ question raised by ESMA’s new order execution consultation
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) is consulting on the development of technical standards (RTS) specifying the criteria for establishing and assessing the...
Connectivity vs relationship control is on the agenda at FILS
Support for streaming firm prices is contingent on connectivity between price-makers and price-takers; a big question which will play out over this year’s Fixed...
Rules and Ratings: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac – Is the end of the...
On the last trading day of 2024, shares of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac surged between 20% and 30% as 2024 ended, catalysed by...
Michael O’Brien leaves Eaton Vance for new firm
Michael O’Brien, former director of global trading at Eaton Vance, has joined Artisan Partners Asset Management with several colleagues. Artisan has announced that O’Brien,...
Nicolas Pilorget promoted at Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan
Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (OTPP) has appointed Nicolas Pilorget as head of credit trading. He is based in Toronto.
Pilorget has been with the company...
Row erupts as CBOE seeks to define exchange boundaries
An application by multi-asset market operator, CBOE, to define what is considered a ‘facility’ of the exchange, has triggered a row. The firm sought...
HSBC integrates with Bloomberg AIM to support post-trade efficiency
HSBC and Bloomberg have integrated Bloomberg AIM, the ubiquitous firm’s investment and order management system (OMS), with HSBC’s middle office technology and operational expertise...
