FILS 2021: Overbond adds pre-trade streaming API for TCA into EMS automation suite
Overbond, a provider of AI analytics and trade automation for the global fixed income markets, has added pre-trade and post-trade transaction cost analysis (TCA)...
Industry bodies rail against new US capital rules
Trade bodies have set their stalls against the introduction of planned capital rules in the US, which would create additional costs for banks seeking...
ESMA: APA problem is not a risk to investment firms
The European Securities and Markets Authority has said that a recent problem in reporting bond market data via an approved publication arrangement (APA) does...
Simone Santiago leaves Morgan Stanley
Simone Santiago has left Morgan Stanley, the company has confirmed.
Santiago has been managing director at the firm since January 2022.
Prior to this, she spent...
Cboe begins publishing VIXTLT index to enhance volatility tracking
Cboe Global Markets has begun publishing intraday values for its 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF Volatility Base Point (VIXTLT) Index.
The VIXTLT Index allows market...
Strong bond issuance raises Q1 bank revenues, Citi up 62%
Goldman Sachs broke the mould for fixed income market makers in Q1, achieving a 6% year-on-year revenue growth, reaching US$3.47 billion.
However, despite declines in...
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.
The DESK’s Trading Protocols...
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By Paul Reynolds, CEO of Bondcube
For a long time I have thought that the bond market shares many dynamics with the grocery industry. Large,...
R3’s Corda powers first digital bond issuance on Euroclear’s digital FMI
R3’s enterprise distributed ledger technology (DLT) platform Corda has supported the first live issuance of a digital bond with Euroclear’s International Central Securities Depository...
Wayne Barber joins Janus trading team
Wayne Barber has been promoted to junior fixed income trader at Janus Henderson Investors.
Barber has been a data analyst at the firm since May...
Scott Kirkby joins Houlihan Lokey
Global investment bank Houlihan Lokey has appointed Scott Kirkby as a managing director of the European financial services and technology team, part of its...
Half of US IG credit e-traded in July
Electronic trading levels in US investment grade credit hit the halfway mark in July, up one percentage point year-on-year to take 50% of notional...