CanDeal, TMX Datalinx develop new Canadian loan benchmark
CanDeal Benchmark Solutions has collaborated with TMX Datalinx on a new “robust benchmark” – Term CORRA (Canadian Overnight Repo Rate Average) 1- and 3-month...
US Treasuries lost its ‘sell-side’; can clearing and capital rules revive it?
Market participants report the current proposals by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to centrally clear trades in the US Treasuries market are...
The Atlantic divide over high yield – is private credit biting?
Issuance of USD versus Euro high yield debt shows a significant split, based on Dealogic data, with US markets in 2024 issuing more than...
OpenDoor launches all-to-all platform in US Treasury market
OpenDoor Securities has launched a trading platform focussed on the less liquid segments of the US Treasury bond market. Nearly three dozen firms representing...
Tradeweb and FTSE Russell launch closing prices for Euro govies
Multi-asset market operator, Tradeweb Markets, has collaborated with FTSE Russell to launch benchmark closing prices for European government bonds.
Calculated in accordance with the...
Paul Kilfoy joins BAML
Bank of America Merrill Lynch has named Paul Kilfoy as a director and senior sales trader, based in Toronto.
Kilfoy has more than 20 years...
US Treasuries: You can’t handle the truth
Editorial by Dan Barnes.
Nobody wants responsibility for the US Treasuries market. We checked.
In 2014 The DESK approached every US financial regulator and authority to...
The Gensler Agenda
Will Gary Gensler, chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), one of the US market regulators, have time to tackle issues in the...
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...
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...
Glue42 aims to boost buy and sell-side internal collaboration
Glue42, the desktop tools integration specialist, has released a new version of its open-source platform, Glue42 Core. The new release, version 2.0, is designed...
MiFID II will push traders to renegotiate block approach
By Flora McFarlane.
Block-trading venues will multiply under MiFID II creating new challenges for buy and sell side say market observers. Venues trading in smaller...
