KNG names Omar Ghalloudi head of emerging market trading
KNG Securities has appointed former Credit Suisse illiquid bond specialist Omar Ghalloudi as head of emerging market (EM) trading.
Corporate and distressed bond ‘expert’ Ghalloudi...
Mizuho and Credit Suisse join DirectBooks
DirectBooks, the capital markets consortium developing bond issuance technology to increase primary market efficiency has announced that Mizuho and Credit Suisse have joined its...
The Book: Alphabet tops issuer league table in May
Alphabet Inc., the parent company of Google, was the largest corporate issuer in May 2025. It issued a combined US$5 billion and a combined...
Dealers need to go with the flow
Broker-dealers must become more technologically savvy in the derivatives space if they want to impress buy-side clients. Lynn Strongin Dodds reports.
Multi-asset trading is increasingly...
TransFICC launches fixed income consolidated tape pilot
TransFICC, the specialist provider of low-latency connectivity and workflow services for Fixed Income and Derivatives Markets, has launched a new initiative to develop a...
Purva Patel swaps Nuveen for First Eagle
Independent, privately owned investment management firm First Eagle Investments has appointed Purva Patel as managing director and senior investment specialist of the high yield...
Morgan Stanley: EM issuance in 2024 to outstrip 2023
Assessment from Morgan Stanley has found sovereign hard currency gross issuance is likely to increase to US$164 billion in 2024 due to more open...
FIX Trading Community releases guidelines on commission unbundling
By Flora McFarlane.
A new report has set out practices to follow for pre- and post-trade representation of commission steps across all asset classes.
With under...
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This Week from Trader TV: Michael Warlan, Third Avenue Management
Third Avenue Management: US Government shutdown fuels market uncertainty, while buy-side overhauls core tech systems.
As markets enter the fourth quarter of 2025, the US...
Mieke Wageveld joins MTS Markets
Euronext has appointed Mieke Wageveld as a sales manager within MTS Markets. She is based in Amsterdam.
Wageveld has more than 20 years of industry...
Rules & Ratings: SAZ Re gets stable ‘excellent’ ratings from AM Best
AM Best has assigned African reinsurance firm SanlamAllianz Re (SAZ) a financial strength rating of A- (excellent) and a long-term issuer credit rating of...
MiFID II: An exercise in risk management
Gherardo Lenti Capoduri, head of Banca IMI’s Market Hub, speaks with The DESK about the capacity of firms on both sides of the street...
