Fusan Exchange issues tokenised sukuk backed by sovereign-linked instrument
Fusang Exchange, a digital stock exchange operator regulated and supervised by the Labuan Financial Services Authority in Malaysia, has tokenised and listed a digital...
Tradeweb and FTSE Russell launch closing prices for Euro govies
Multi-asset market operator, Tradeweb Markets, has collaborated with FTSE Russell to launch benchmark closing prices for European government bonds.
Calculated in accordance with the...
LedgerEdge goes live with eagerly anticipated bond trading platform
LedgerEdge, the distributed ledger ecosystem for trading bonds has gone live with a regulated corporate bond trading platform built using distributed ledger technology (DLT),...
FCA appoints UK Secondary Markets Advisory Committee members
The FCA has appointed members of the UK secondary markets advisory committee for June 2024 to June 2026.
The committee supports the FCA’s work in...
Juan Landazabal appointed COO Investments at GAM
Veteran of fixed income trading, Juan Landazabal, was promoted to chief operations officer (COO) for investments at asset manager GAM at the end of...
Chris McConville joins Kepler Cheuvreux
Broker Kepler Cheuvreux has made three major new appointments to support its strategic ambitions in equity brokerage: Stéphane Bouret as global head of equity...
Insights & Analysis: European high-yield issuance dropped in Q1
Primary high yield (HY) bond issuance fell by 23.6% quarter-on-quarter (QoQ) in the first three months of the year, and was down almost 30%...
FDIC drive to issue US bank debt
Banks in the US have been asked by Government agencies to issue new debt to support their stability under a new proposal by the...
No Danish Compromise for BNP Paribas
BNP Paribas has finalised its acquisition of AXA Investment Managers (AXA IM) and clarified its leadership structure going forward.
The firm has not been able...
Retail primary market platform PrimaryBid announces US$190m Series C investment
PrimaryBid, a platform to provide retail investors with access to primary debt and equity market offerings, has closed a US$190 million Series C investment...
Robeco’s equity desk engages Goldman Sachs analytics in FlexTRADER
Robeco is live and in production with Goldman Sachs pre-trade cluster analytics and market impact estimates within FlexTRADER execution management system (EMS). The service...
US shutdown hitting bond market traders
By Pia Hecher.
The ongoing United States federal government shutdown is directly impacting US bond market regulation and evolution, leading to the Fixed Income Market...