Jean-Marc Perrin elevated at SGCIB
Société Générale Corporate and Investment Banking (SGCIB) has promoted Jean-Marc Perrin to co-head of Investment grade credit trading.
This advancement comes after his tenure as...
LSEG restructures IT services
The London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) has restructured its technology businesses under a single brand, LSEG Technology. The change took place over the summer...
Mark Carney says bitcoin has ‘pretty much failed’ as money
Speaking at Regents University on 19 February, Mark Carney, the Governor of the Bank of England, said bitcoin, “has pretty much failed” on providing...
Liquidnet: Listed derivatives volumes grew nearly 46% globally in 2021
A new report published by market operator Liquidnet has identified a 45.8% growth in listed derivatives trading volumes in 2021 over the previous year.
The...
Chart of the week: ECB rates rise expectations
Expectations on the European Central Bank’s appetite to increase its interest rate will have a direct and negative impact on European bond trading which...
House of Representatives hearing: Volcker link to bond illiquidity tenuous
Testimony given to the US House of Representatives on 29 March 2017 suggests the Volcker Rule cannot be directly blamed for poor liquidity in...
Concannon joins MarketAxess from CBOE; New US exchange to fight incumbents
Bond venue operator and data provider MarketAxess has named Chris Concannon, as president and chief operating officer, effective as of January 22, 2019.
He will...
MAS fines JP Morgan over fee misconduct
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has fined JP Morgan S2.4 million (US$1.79 million) over relationship manager misconduct, which resulted in clients being overcharged.
For...
American primary debt markets keep humming
Dealogic data show US debt capital market (DCM) issuance is little changed year on year (YoY) in aggregate: 2025 year-to-date (YtD) totals US$1.97 trillion...
ICMA says execution and order management systems are not trading venues
The International Capital Markets Association (ICMA) has responded to the European Securities and Market Authority (ESMA) consultation into the ‘trading venue perimeter’ by arguing...
List trading goes live on MTS BondsPro all-to-all order book
MTS Markets , part of London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), has added list trading functionality to its MTS BondsPro corporate bond trading platform, enabling...
Origination: SocGen’s Sogecap issues €800 mil in perpetual notes
Societe Generale’s life insurance company Sogecap has issued €800 million in restricted Tier 1 perpetual notes.
Perpetual notes have no maturity date, and are non-redeemable....
