Nicolas Pilorget promoted at Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan
Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (OTPP) has appointed Nicolas Pilorget as head of credit trading. He is based in Toronto.
Pilorget has been with the company...
MarketAxess: In focus: Systematic fixed income trading strategies
As a growing number of banks, hedge funds and asset managers begin deploying more systematic and quantitative strategies across fixed income trading, Max Callaghan,...
Oliver Haste joins Propellant.digital
Bond market analytics provider, Propellant.digital, has announced that Oliver Haste has joined as head of EMEA product, Propellant’s second senior appointment in five weeks,...
MiFID II: Five concerns
Chris Hall explores the five primary concerns that credit traders have about MiFID II.
“MiFID II is not yet in force, but its impact is...
UK sees first tokenised collateral FX transaction
Lloyds Banking Group and Aberdeen Investments have completed the first foreign exchange trade using tokenised collateral in the UK.
Tokenised units of Aberdeen Investment’s money...
Buy-side profile: Bryn Jones
Bryn Jones, head of fixed income and lead manager Rathbone Ethical Bond Fund and the Rathbone Strategic Bond Fund talks about building a strong...
The positive impact of desktop interoperability on trade execution – David Rickard
Traders can add more value in analysis and decision-making than they can as connections between systems.
Removing operational bottlenecks allows buy-side traders to provide better...
Janus Henderson promotes Tim Winstone
Tim Winstone has been promoted at Janus Henderson Investors, becoming head of investment grade credit.
Winstone has more than 20 years of industry experience, and...
OpenFin Appoints Vicky Sanders as Chief Digital Officer
OpenFin has hired Vicky Sanders in the new role of chief digital officer as the operating system aims to accelerate out-of-the-box connectivity and interoperability...
Regulation: innovation sees European corporate bond market’s electronification outpace US
When it comes to electronic trading, Europe’s corporate bond market is racing ahead of its US counterpart, with two thirds of European investors looking...
Issuance of debt increasingly financing UK companies
Analysis of corporate financing across European, UK and US markets by the Association of Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) has found that over the...
Six New Trends in Managing Fixed Income Accounts
By Blake Lynch, Head of Sales at IMTC.
Predicting the bond market’s next move is difficult at best—will the yield curve steepen or flatten? Will...
