Sourcing and connecting: The buy-side fixed income liquidity challenge
By Frank Cerveny, Head of Markets and Sales at MTS.
How can institutional investors find the liquidity to grow their fixed income businesses with the...
Managing human capital in fixed income trading
As the fixed income industry evolves, so do the skills needed to succeed — and emotional intelligence is increasingly at the forefront of how...
FILS USA: The roadblocks to electronic fixed income trading
Fixed income markets moving toward electronic trading has been a recurring theme in the industry for a number of year, but there are roadblocks...
Ratings & Analysis: S&P upgrades South Africa
S&P Global Ratings has upgraded South Africa’s long-term sovereign ratings, assigning the country BB for foreign currency and BB+ for local currency, with a...
Citi, Deutsche Bank admit breaking competition law in bond trading, finds UK watchdog
By Laurie McAughtry
The UK’s anti-trust authority, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), has found that five banks including Citi, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, Morgan Stanley...
BoE’s limited window could punish the gilt-y
The Bank of England’s limited UK government bond (gilt) purchase operations have been confirmed to close on Friday, putting tight brackets around buy-side firms’...
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...
Direct streaming builds support at TradeTech
The evolution of bond trading, through the smart application of technology and increasingly sophisticated market making is promising to deliver better execution, said Lynn...
Tim Baker joins BMLL to expand firm’s US presence
BMLL, the provider of historical Level 3 data and analytics, has appointed of Tim Baker as senior adviser. Based in New York, Baker will...
Corentine Poilvet-Clédière appointed CEO of LCH SA
LCH Group has named Corentine Poilvet-Clédière as CEO of LCH SA, the European counterparty clearing house (CCP) based in Paris, effective 1 October 2023.
Poilvet-Clédière...
Insights & Analysis: CCPs’ micro-prudential framework can increase system wise risk level, Sarah Breeden...
Rules that keep each central counterparty safe can, on their own, push danger into the wider financial system, the Bank of England’s Sarah Breeden...
Bid-ask spread betting in credit
Betting how bid-ask spreads will move this year has been made more challenging by a dislocation between the mean average and the median bid-ask...
