KNG Securities appoints Edward Williams to emerging markets sales team
Fixed-income investment bank KNG Securities has appointed Edward Williams to its sales team as an emerging markets (EM) specialist.
Williams brings 30 years of experience...
Issuance tracking down in lower rated debt
Issuance of lower rated bonds and leveraged loans across Europe and the US fell in October, according to analysis by investment bank Morgan Stanley,...
European Commission fines investment banks €371 million for bond trading cartel
The European Commission has found that Bank of America, Natixis, Nomura, RBS (now NatWest), UBS, UniCredit and WestLB (now Portigon) have breached EU antitrust...
Rules & Ratings: Credit ratings up, outlook down for Greek government
Moody’s Ratings has upgraded the Greek Government’s long-term local currency (LC) and foreign currency (FC) issuer ratings from Ba1 to Baa3. However, the country’s...
FILS Amsterdam: Traders are fighting on several fronts
By Dan Barnes.
Traders are still fighting for better data and transparency – in the right places – at FILS Amsterdam 2018, but the elephant...
When, not if: ‘UK should move to T+1’
The UK should commit to move to a T+1 settlement cycle. That is according to the UK’s Accelerated Settlement Taskforce, which recommends setting up...
Tech, not tape, needed to harness fixed income data
Asset managers' lives could be made easier if they had access to a high quality source of fixed income data – and the technology...
Emerging Markets Focus Part 1: What the flows mean for traders
Fixed income sector investments have proven worst for emerging markets funds year to date, according to data from JP Morgan and Bloomberg indices, driving...
Tradeweb and MarketAxess beat TRACE growth in November
US electronic credit activity firmed in November. On FINRA’s TRACE tape, combined US investment-grade and high-yield average daily volume (ADV) rose to US$57.8 billion,...
ESMA relaxes best ex reporting
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has pushed back reporting of best execution by execution venues and trading firms, which are regulatory requirements...
IMTC partners with ICE Bonds
Fixed income liquidity from ICE Bonds is now available on the IMTC platform.
Mutual clients will be able to access BondPoint and TMC, ICE Bond’s...
MarketAxess’s 2020 revenues up nearly 35%
Electronic bond market operator, MarketAxess, has reported revenues in 2020 were up 34.8% on 2019 to US$689.1 million, compared to US$511.4 million for the...
