Kepler Cheuvreux boosts credit sales team
Kepler Cheuvreux has appointed Maria Giulia Catania and Tommaso Manzone to its credit sales team, based in London.
The duo will focus on EMEA clients,...
This Week from Trader TV: Stuart Lawrence, UBS Asset Management
UBS AM: Markets brace for the tariff volatility, and concerns develop over “irrational optimism”
While markets have been trading at all-time highs, Stuart Lawrence, head...
ESMA moves to tighten up algo surveillance
Algo trading has grown increasingly complex over the last decade. In 2007, the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) permitted competition with the national...
Exclusive: Katana’s intellectual property up for sale
The intellectual property of Katana, which provides trade ideas to bond investors, has been put up for sale by Hilco Streambank. Developed in-house at...
FILS 2021: Buy-side needs to make more noise for the right data
Data providers and regulators concur that the buy-side needs to communicate more clearly with politicians and suppliers if they are to get baseline bond...
Insights & Analysis: Risk appetite rises as market stability risks fall, BofA says
An increasing number of investors are taking higher risks relative to their benchmarks, according to Bank of America’s February Global Fund Manager Survey.
The net...
Oliver Price joins Bank of America
Oliver Price has joined Bank of America as a GBP swaps trader in London.
Bank of America reported increased revenues for the fixed income, currencies...
CME Group set to clear US cash Treasuries
A CME Group representative has confirmed to The DESK that the company is set to enter US Treasury clearing.
The news was first reported...
ICMA: Buy side struggled to make margin calls as repo dried up
A new report, ‘European repo market and the COVID-19 crisis’ published by the International Capital Markets Association, has found that some buy-side firms had...
Insights & Analysis: UBS tracks rising quality in US high yield
In an analysis of US credit fundamentals for high yield (HY) debt, investment banking giant, UBS, via its HOLT valuation service acquired from Credit...
FICC taps Saphyre ahead of clearing mandate
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation’s (DTCC) Fixed Income Clearing Corporation (FICC) has partnered with AI infrastructure provider Saphyre to enhance its onboarding procedures...
ICE chases Tradeweb in MBS electronic trading
ICE aims to get a bigger pie of the electronic Mortgage Backed Securities (MBS) trading market and introduces a new anonymous Request-for-Quote (RFQ) protocol.
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