High yield bond issuance relative to liquidity
A report by the Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) has found that primary issuance of European high yield (HY) bonds in 2023...
BofA: ‘Universal gloom’ in fund manager survey
The latest fund manager survey by BofA has found that a net 92% of survey participants expect a recession in Europe over the next...
Research: ETFs worsen fixed income liquidity in a crisis
An academic paper has argued that fixed income exchange traded funds (ETFs) “improve bond liquidity in general, but worsen it in periods of large...
Hermes appoints Andrew Jackson as head of Fixed Income
Hermes Investment Management, which has £30.6 billion in assets under management, appointed Andrew Jackson as head of Fixed Income, reporting to Eoin Murray, head...
Low volatility hits Q2 MarketAxess earnings
Bond market operator, MarketAxess, reported revenues of US$176.3 million in the second quarter of 2021, down 4.6% against Q2 2020.
“Second quarter results were heavily...
On The DESK: Leaders in bond trading pinpoint risks and opportunities
We asked the buy-side traders we have profiled on The DESK for the past ten years to discuss the biggest changes they thought had...
Reports: MTS to launch D2C initiative with backing from major dealers
Several market sources have reported that MTS Markets, the fixed income trading division of Euronext, is to launch a dealer-to-client credit trading offering through...
Glimpse Markets and TORA connect to support buy-side traders
Glimpse Markets, the buy-side data sharing hub, has partnered with order and execution management system (OEMS) provider TORA.
By connecting TORA’s OEMS with Glimpse...
Eurex expands FX Futures offering to emerging markets currencies
Eurex will start trading new FX Futures contracts covering Brazilian Real (BRL), Mexican Pesos (MXN) and South African Rand (ZAR) on 10 October 2022....
DTCC’s FICC sees record clearing figures in government securities
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC)’s Fixed Income Clearing Corporation’s (FICC’s) Government Securities Division (GSD) processed US$8.8 trillion in daily activity on 31st...
ISDA expands transparency exercise to European CDS
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) has expanded its SwapsInfo derivatives database to include European credit default swaps (CDS) trading activity, enhancing transparency...
Mike Rosborough, CalPERS: On truth and transparency
Dating back to the 1930s, the California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS) is the largest pension fund in the United States. Mike Rosborough, senior portfolio...
