Fed begins buying corporate bonds
The Federal Reserve Board has announced the Secondary Market Corporate Credit Facility (SMCCF), will begin buying a corporate bonds to support market liquidity and...
Sunil Daswani rejoins MarketAxess
MarketAxess has confirmed the appointment of Sunil Daswani as senior sales relationship manager.
In the role, Daswani will lead business development efforts and deliver client...
ICE consolidates access to ICE Bonds and ICE Data Services
Market operator Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), has launched ‘ICE Select’ an application which provides connectivity to the ICE Fixed Income ecosystem, including the ICE Bonds...
Technology: What large language models do to the trading desk
LLMs are already adding value to trading teams.
The advent of Open AI’s Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer (ChatGPT) tool has generated as many column inches...
AT1 trading volume was elevated a week ahead of Credit Suisse wipe-out
Trading in AT1 bonds spiked on Monday 20th March as a result of the Credit Suisse rescue at the weekend, with one platform trader...
Jane Street joins MTS BondVision
MTS BondVision has onboarded Jane Street as a dealer.
According to MTS, the top ten dealers on the platform in 2025 were BofA MErrill Lynch,...
Phua expands responsibilities at Citi APAC
Galvin Phua has been named APAC head of markets solutions sales for the company’s commercial bank (CCB) clients.
Based in Singapore, he reports to Cecile...
AFME: EU retail investor proposals may negatively impact wholesale markets
The Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) has outlined its concerns with the European Commission’s Retail Investment Strategy (RIS), with some of the...
Neptune providing real-time bond inventory data to Charles River
Charles River Development and Neptune Networks are collaborating to provide buy-side clients of Charles River’s Order and Execution Management System (OEMS) with aggregated, real-time...
Ratings & Analysis: S&P records year’s first fallen angel
S&P Global Ratings has claimed its first fallen angel of the year. Medical device manufacturer Hologic dropped from B+ to BBB- last week, after...
Outsourced trading consolidates further with State Street’s new acquisition
State Street Corporation has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire CF Global Trading, a global firm specialising in outsourced trading on an agency...
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...
