FILS USA 2022: News you may have missed this week
Treasury launches new effort to improve resilience of its market
The US Department of the Treasury, in consultation with the Inter-Agency Working Group on Treasury...
Ahmed leaves Goldman for Balyasny
Wajih Ahmed has swapped Goldman Sachs for Balyasny Asset Management, joining the firm as a macro portfolio manager after more than a decade with...
JP Morgan leads DCM amidst primary markets retreat in Q1 2025
In the first quarter of 2025, global debt capital markets (DCM) activity retreated while JP Morgan maintained its position at the top of the...
Rosa joins RBC
Adriano Rosa has joined RBC Capital Markets as a high yield (HY) credit trader. He is based in London.
RBC Capital Markets represents a quarter...
Wood leaves Ninety One for Bloomberg
Ed Wood has joined Bloomberg as an electronic trading sales specialist for credit in London.
Last year, Ryan Scott joined the rates electronic sales team...
Tradeweb launches enhanced RFQ functionality for credit markets
Tradeweb has launched an enhanced functionality for request-for-quote (RFQ) trading in US credit markets. RFQ Edge deploys Tradeweb’s advanced portfolio trading analytics to its...
Bloomberg launches benchmark bond indices to aid low-carbon transition
Bloomberg has launched the Bloomberg Government Climate Tilted Bond Indices, offering investors exposure to Bloomberg’s fixed income benchmarks with a specific focus on companies...
Coalition Greenwich: “E-trading in HY is only just getting started”
Average daily notional volumes were up 4% year-on-year (YoY) to US$51 billion in US credit this October, with average daily trade sizes rising by...
OpenDoor closes for business
OpenDoor, the trading venue for US Treasuries, has ceased trading, effective 13 January 2021.
In a statement posted online, Susan Estes, CEO and president of...
Buy side finds trading on the turn no less challenging
When everyone was selling and no-one was buying liquidity vanished. However, as bond market outflows lessen, and in some cases reverse, many buy-side traders...
European Women in Finance : Else Braathen : A call to action
Else Braathen, risk domain manager at SimCorp talks to Lynn Strongin Dodds about risk management, stress testing and staying calm.
Although Covid-19 has shaken the...
Tackling the cost challenge in fixed income trading
In today’s highly competitive and cost-conscious fixed income market, small and medium sized institutions can struggle without the efficiencies of scale which large institutions...
