Emily Prince joins Finbourne board
Finbourne Technology has named Emily Prince, group head of analytics at LSEG and CEO of analytics service Yield Book, as a non-executive board member.
Prince...
Industry viewpoint : SIX Swiss Exchange : Frédéric Messein
Better interdealer execution generates natural liquidity
Banks’ reticence to trade with clients is a consequence of the cost of carrying risk; SIX Corporate Bonds de-risks...
Fed begins buying corporate bonds
The Federal Reserve Board has announced the Secondary Market Corporate Credit Facility (SMCCF), will begin buying a corporate bonds to support market liquidity and...
EXCLUSIVE: abrdn’s automation journey sees no-touch jump
Louise Drummond, global head of investment execution at abrdn, discusses the firm’s path towards workflow automation – an achievement that has been almost a...
Clearstream provides transparency into bond liquidity
Adel Humayun, Analyst in the Quantitative Analytics team at Deutsche Börse, and Catherine Jimenez, Head of Strategic Market Development in Eurobonds Product at Clearstream discuss the recently...
April Day leads AFME capital markets
AFME has named April Day as head of capital markets.
Based in London, she replaces Rick Watson, who announced his retirement in July 2024.
Day has...
ICE ties BondPoint into broader fixed income strategy
By Flora McFarlane.
Intercontinental Exchange has completed its acquisition of BondPoint from Virtu Financial, signalling its continued expansion in the fixed income market.
BondPoint, an alternative...
Country focus: India’s bond markets in an election year
India has an upcoming election on 19 April, which the governing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), led by incumbent Prime Minister Narendra Modi, is widely...
Central Banks should backstop hedge funds arbitraging the basis trade, new Brookings Paper suggests
A research paper to be presented at the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (BPEA) conference on 28 March, argues that central banks, particularly the...
KfW issues first digital Euro commercial paper via Onbrane
Bond issuance platform, Onbrane, has onboarded KfW, the national development bank of Germany, and processed the first KfW's first Euro commercial paper via Onbrane’s...
Tommy Dawson promoted at BlackRock
Tommy Dawson has been promoted to credit trader associate at BlackRock.
Based in London, Dawson has been a credit trader analyst at the firm since...
BGC Group offers US dollar swap e-trading
BGC Group has launched a fully electronic trading platform for US dollar swaps. Briana Grazioso, director of e-sales at the firm, will lead the...
