People moves: Scott steps into Switzer’s shoes; Konak joins Balyasny; Zaman joins Pershing
Matt Scott has been confirmed as head of core fixed income trading at AllianceBernstein (AB), following Jim Switzer’s promotion to head of municipals earlier...
FIMSAC: MiFID II shows flaws in ‘equitisation’ of bond markets
By Shobha Prabhu-Naik.
Europe’s revamped Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) legislation MiFID II carries ideas from the equity markets into other markets but...
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%...
Research: Bloomberg, the EMS of choice for fixed income
We analyse the firm’s success in delivering an outperforming execution management system.
This year’s research has found Bloomberg’s fixed income execution management system (EMS), TSOX,...
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Hiring spree sees banks bolster fixed-income desks
By Flora McFarlane.
A Greenwich Associates report indicates banks are rebuilding their sales and trading desks in response to several quarters of growth in fixed...
Changing the liquidity dynamic
US treasury traders are seeing enormous shifts in historical volume and trading patterns. Nichola Hunter, CEO of trading venue LiquidityEdge believes that asset managers...
Origination: S&P prices major senior note issuance
S&P Global has priced a total US$10 billion in senior notes.
The offering is split into US$600 million 4.250% senior notes due 15 January 2031,...
The right way to trade credit
Of course, there is no right way to trade all credit, but there are clearly advantages in trading credit in such a way that...
BondDroid AI now available within TS Imagine’s TradeSmart fixed income EMS
TS Imagine has made 7 Chord’s BondDroid AI available within the TradeSmart fixed income EMS.
BondDroid AI applies real-time continuous learning technology to generate accurate...
QuantHouse provides access to Fenics USTreasuries
By Pia Hecher.
QuantHouse, the trading solutions provider, now offers access to US cash treasury market turnover and to via an application programming interface (API)...
Discussions between TP ICAP and Neptune reported
Multiple market sources have reported that discussions between pre-trade data provider Neptune and TP ICAP, the multi-asset trading, interdealer broker and data services firm,...
Viewpoint : Best execution : Constantinos Antoniades & Rebecca Healey
A global gold standard of best execution – moving beyond MiFID II
By Constantinos Antoniades, Head of Fixed Income, and Rebecca Healey, Head of EMEA...
