Credit: January sees largest average daily notional for US corporate bonds
January 2024 saw the largest single volume day and largest average daily notional volume (ADNV) month ever for US corporate bonds.
$75 billion of investment...
European investment grade seeing smaller, cheaper trades
European investment grade bond traders are seeing a falling bid-ask spread, and a rising trade count since the start of 2024, according to MarketAxess’s...
Mandatory central clearing: More resilient treasury market expected
Mandatory central clearing is expected to make the market safer and more resilient. But there is a catch. The new regulations – set to...
How Tradeweb helped BBVA AM
Portfolio Trading offers a highly efficient channel for sourcing liquidity from ETF market-makers, which are frequently pricing credit bonds in real-time to facilitate fixed-income...
J.P. Morgan: Offering new operational benefits for bond funds through DLT
The bank launches Digital Bond Issuances to better support investors as markets move to a distributed ledger model across assets.
As J.P. Morgan announces the...
FILS USA: Whither electronic bond trading?
Jenny Xiao of BlackRock and Chris Concannon of MarketAxess discuss the trends that are reshaping credit and rates markets in the Industry Crystal Ball...
IHS Markit: Investor Access doubles investor use
By Pia Hecher.
Information and analytics provider IHS Markit announced that 320 investment firms are participating on its Investor Access platform. The number of buy-side...
The implication of falling US HY Issuance
Anecdotally, we hear that new issuance of high yield bonds in European markets directly impacted secondary market liquidity. Looking at the latest data from...
AXA IM confirms it is offering outsourced trading
AXA Investment Managers has confirmed it has begun to offer outsourced trading to smaller firms.
“Due to the squeezing of margins and the need for...
FILS USA 2022: Focus on liquidity
As fixed income market participants eye the threat of a further back-up in yields, liquidity sourcing is being reassessed.
While technology has greatly advanced the...
Rules & Ratings: KBRA makes two senior management appointments
Eric Neglia has been named global head of KBRA’s expanding funds ratings business, while Thomas Speller has been appointed global head of fund finance,...
Dimis Theodorou joins ING
ING has appointed Dimis Theodorou as managing director and head of its UK debt capital markets syndicate, with a focus on high yield, emerging...
