Private equity sponsored debt activity momentum accelerated in Q4
Unitranche financing reached new heights, with Q4 closing at 150 transactions—up 28% from Q3—and an annual total of 489 deals, marking a 38% increase...
Cboe Australia, XTB expand access to corporate bond products
Cboe Australia has added XTB’s exchange-traded corporate bond products (XTBs) to the Cboe Funds platform.
In partnership with XTB, Cboe Australia has launched a series...
Investor demand: French no-confidence vote sharpens pressure on OAT-Bund spread
French Prime Minister François Bayrou’s call for a no confidence vote was scheduled for the 8 September late on Monday 25 August. Aiming to...
JP Morgan announces global structuring management leadership
JP Morgan has reorganised its global structuring management team, following the expansion of Rui Fernandes’s role as head of global structuring, earlier this year.
In...
The DESK: Systematic trading
The DESK discusses effective systematic trading, the benefits to end investors, and the skills needed to create and run systematic workflows with Chris Minck,...
Duff leads UK debt, EMEA FIG at SMBC
Matthew Duff has been named head of the EMEA financial investment group and UK debt syndicate at SMBC Group. He is based in London.
SMBC...
Ten years of research: Lessons for trading platforms in fixed income
Lessons on the viability and competitiveness of liquidity aggregation tools can be drawn form the last decade of research conducted by The DESK.
In 2015...
State Street and FactSet partner to support better data management
State Street and FactSet have partnered to integrate State Street Alpha and FactSet to support streamlining of data flows across the front, middle and...
Research: Volatility has changed trading protocol choices in 2021
Buy-side trading desks have used markedly different proportions of trading protocols between passive and active portfolios this year compared to 2020.
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October sees record US Treasury volumes
A volatile October ended with record highs for the US Treasury market, but dealers are not reaping the rewards, Coalition Greenwich has found.
Average daily...
Barnes on Bonds: Secondary Gilt Trip
To look at the whipsaw effect of the UK’s 23 September mini-budget on secondary UK bond trading, we have taken data from MarketAxess TraX,...
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...
