Rising rates but falling demand
Analysis by JP Morgan’s Global Markets Strategy team, Nikos Panigirtzoglou, Mika Inkinen and Mayur Yeole has cast an interesting light on the prospects for...
S&P Global completes sale of Fincentric
S&P Global has completed the sale of its Fincentric business to Stellex Capital Management, a global private equity firm. The transaction does not have...
Vive la revolution!
Securing the benefits of the markets’ democratic revolution.
By Mike du Plessis, Managing Director, Global Head FX, Rates and Credit Execution Services and Mark Goodman,...
ISDA has named Jeroen Krens as board chair
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) has appointed Jeroen Krens as its new board chair, effective 1st of January 2025. He succeeds Eric...
Analysis: Is credit trading really so close?
Last week we reported on the battle for credit trading between keen rivals MarketAxess and Tradeweb. During this reporting, we noted that Morgan Stanley...
Reviewing 2022: European credit trading costs have doubled
There have been an enormous number of factors shaking up bond trading this year. From fixed income fundamentals like rapidly rising interest rates from...
AXA IM: Credit downgrades increases concentration and liquidity risk in index investment
A decrease in the average credit quality of fixed income indices and intensifying competition for high quality assets present increasingly serious challenges for UK...
Cedric Barbier joins Stone X
Cedric Barbier has moved from Nomura to StoneX and is named emerging market fixed income sales.
With a financial markets career spanning more than twenty...
EMSs connect the dots in bond trading
Increased integration between venues and trading tools could herald far greater automation.
Moving a fixed income order from a portfolio manager to a counterparty is becoming...
Dealers had ‘exceptional’ 2022 for fixed income; JP Morgan tops Q1 DCM winners
Research by front-office technology provider, valantic FSA, and analyst firm, Acuiti, has found that 52% of dealers had an ‘exceptional’ year for fixed income...
The Book: ICMA releases DLT bond guidance
The International Capital Markets Association (ICMA) has released the latest reference guidance on distributed ledger technology (DLT)-based debt securities.
The paper has been developed in...
TRACE recalibration exposes double counting
An adjustment to bond trade reporting to TRACE, the US post-trade reporting tape for fixed income, has cut the volume of trades arranged via...
