FILS in Barcelona: What a T+1 world will look like for fixed income
At FILS 2023, Stephanie Fraser of Baillie Gifford and Katia Felina, head of post-trade product at Bloomberg, discussed the future in both Europe and...
The fall of Europe’s brokers
Reduced competition could lead to higher prices for buy-side bond traders.
The collapse of European brokerage houses is hitting buy-side trading desks in two ways....
Bloomberg broadens EM bond pricing coverage
Bloomberg has expanded its intraday valuation (IBVAL) front office service to cover emerging market (EM) bonds on a 22/5 basis.
Launched in 2023, IBVAL provides...
Barclays Canada hires new head of investment banking
Barclays has appointed Ryan Voegeli as head of investment banking for Canada. Voegeli will be based in Toronto.
Voegeli has twenty years of investment banking...
People: Hunter leaves MarketAxess; Louchard at AXA IM
Nichola Hunter has left MarketAxess as head of its rates business. Hunter joined the firm in 2020 when it acquired government bond marketplace LiquidityEdge,...
UPDATED: UBS continues to swing axe
UBS, the investment banking giant has reportedly cut further jobs from its markets division, with many people internally fearing more jobs are to go,...
Izzy Conlin & Bryan Knapp: On cutting through complexity
There is nothing simple about the task facing BlackRock’s dealing teams, who trade for some of the world’s largest fixed income positions. For Izzy...
ESMA: Confusion over TO/TOTV to be resolved “within weeks”
By Aulia Beg
In the coming weeks, the European Securities Markets Authority (ESMA) has said it will provide greater clarity around the definition of Trading...
BondAuction breaks into liability management
BondAuction has expanded its platform capabilities to cover liability management.
“If an issuer would like to buy back its bonds, it can announce that to...
LoopFX goes live
FX liquidity network LoopFX has gone live after three years of development.
A total of 15 asset managers and banks have executed agreements with the...
Bloomberg releases new Common Data Format for legal entity identifiers
Bloomberg has released the New Common Data Format 3.1 for legal entity identifiers (LEIs) and received a second accreditation as an LEI issuer for...
ICE: Measuring and managing climate risk in debt markets
As the physical risks associated with climate rapidly shift, borrowers, lenders and investors need to better understand their exposure. Larry Lawrence, head of sustainable...
