Markus Sauerland joins NowCM as COO, co-CEO
Market infrastructure and issuance provider NowCM has appointed Markus Sauerland as its new chief operating officer and co-CEO, alongside current CEO Robert Koller, effective...
Hunstad and Roth take investment reins at NTAM
Northern Trust Asset Management (NTAM) has named Michael Hunstad and Christian Roth global co-chief investment officers, effective 1 June.
They replace Angelo Manioudakis, who has...
Control is the best defence
By Chris Roberts | 29 May 2024
With a growing level of scrutiny coming from European Regulatory bodies about the quality of data reporting, firms...
BNY goes live with Dublin EU trading desk
BNY has established a trading desk in Dublin, supporting EU-based clients across global fixed income and equity markets. Bianca Gould, head of EMEA equities...
Kierton joins BlackRock
George Kierton has joined BlackRock as a vice president and emerging markets trader.
BlackRock holds a reported US$14 trillion in assets under management.
Earlier this week,...
AxeTrading receives €2 million investment from Illuminate Financial
AxeTrading, a provider of fixed income trading technology, has announced a strategic investment of €2 million from Illuminate Financial Management, a venture capital firm...
TD Securities names new co-heads of global markets
Chris Vogel and Tim Wiggan have been promoted to co-heads of global markets at Toronto Dominion Securities (TD Securities).
In a statement the firm said,...
How banks slash the cost of managing market fragmentation
A smart application of hardware, cloud and open source technology makes for efficient trading systems. The complexity of the fixed income market should not...
Alexander Sedgwick joins S&P Global
S&P Global Market Intelligence has appointed market-structure specialist Alexander Sedgwick as executive director on its municipals & fixed-income commercial team in New York.
Sedgwick arrives...
BlackRock’s Rieder: Fed will buy at least $1.5 trillion in Treasuries in 2020
Rick Rieder, BlackRock’s chief investment officer of Global Fixed Income, co-manager of the BlackRock Fixed Income Global Opportunities fund and BGF Global Bond Income...
US Treasury volumes up, volatility down post-election
Average daily notional volume (ADNV) in US rates trading rose by 14% year-on-year (YoY) in November, reaching US$953 billion. This marks the most electronic...
State Street introduces buy-side to buy-side repo programme
State Street has launched a new peer-to-peer repo programme for the buy side. Building out from its sponsored repo and securities lending model, including...
