Finanstilsynet: Portfolio manager “abused his position” by flipping bonds and self-trading
The senior portfolio manager for Norwegian investment firm Kraft Finans, Øivind Thorstensen, was piggy-backing on client investment in new bond issues, in order to...
Rules & Ratings: EM credit risk on the rise, says Fitch
Fitch Ratings has revised its sector outlooks for APAC, Eastern Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa sovereign to ‘deteriorating’ from ‘neutral’ as credit risk rises.
Credit risk...
LSEG widens market maker spreads for government bonds, more ETFs
The London Stock Exchange Group has increased market-maker spreads to 5% for all exchange-traded products (ETPs), exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and UK government bonds -...
FIX issues guide for MiFID II reporting of bond trades
By Flora McFarlane.
FIX Trading Community, which sets the messaging standard for trading messages sent between buy-side and sell-side firms, has published the final Recommended...
The election effect: Secondary markets
While the effect of an election on the markets is typically subdued on the day itself – more so when the outcome is uncertain...
Origination: EC issues €11bn dual-tranche EU-Bond; books top €175bn
The European Commission raised €11 billion in its ninth syndicated deal of 2025, via a €5 billion tap of the 13 December 2032 EU-bond...
CSDR mandatory buy-in delay welcomed
Umberto Menconi, head of Digital Markets Structures, Market Hub, Banca IMI, Intesa Sanpaolo Group
Since the financial crisis waves of new regulation and the need...
CME Europe and CME Clearing Europe to close by year end
CME Group is to close its London-based derivatives exchange and clearing house, CME Europe and CME Clearing Europe, by year-end 2017. The announcement follows Nasdaq...
Block trading investigations follow a long trend
Several investigations reported in the press are following regulatory scrutiny of block trading arrangements. The investigations reported by Bloomberg, Reuters and the Financial Times...
GSAM outsources global trade execution to BNY Mellon
Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM) has selected BNY Mellon’s buy-side trading services for global trade execution.
BNY Mellon now provides global trade execution services to...
QuantHouse provides access to Fenics USTreasuries
By Pia Hecher.
QuantHouse, the trading solutions provider, now offers access to US cash treasury market turnover and to via an application programming interface (API)...
Jonathan Rick: SOFR First slowly, then all at once
SOFR First slowly, then all at once: Measuring the market transition from LIBOR
Jonathan Rick, Director of Research, Tradeweb
The dealer-to-dealer market’s switch towards the Secured Overnight...
