Reports: Ukraine raises nearly US$300 million in bond sale
Ukraine has successfully raised funds in the bond market at a time when Russian debt is becoming untradable. The proceeds from the bonds will...
SOLVE: Eugene Grinberg (from a TraderTV interview)
Bringing the bond market’s loose ends together
Accurate bond pricing remains a challenge in today’s fixed income markets. Two critical issues stand in the way:...
Onbrane launches primary debt market blockchain simulator
Onbrane, a provider of short-term debt market digitalisation technologies, has developed a primary debt market blockchain simulator, shadowing real transactions in a virtual blockchain...
Ex-MTS exec joins Propellant Digital
Propellant Digital has named Caroline Wohleber as a senior within the Continental Europe sales team.
In the Paris-based role, Wohleber is responsible for client acquisition...
Securitisation veteran jumps to Piper Sandler
Piper Sandler has appointed Mary Stone as managing director and co-head of the structured finance group.
Based in New York, she shares the role with...
On the Desk: Ed Wicks, head of trading, L&G Asset Management
Ed Wicks, L&G Asset Management's head of trading, sat down with The DESK to discuss how the company organises its operations, the trends he...
Tushara Fernando leads enterprise engineering at Man
Man Group has appointed Tushara Fernando as managing director and head of enterprise engineering.
Fernando has more than a decade of industry experience and has...
Cosaic and Reformis partner to drive interoperability on buy side
Workflow solution provider, Cosaic, has partnered with Reformis. is a technology consulting firm for the investment management industry to bring interoperability to buy-side firms...
Staying the course: Outlook for 2018
By Boon Peng Ooi, chief investment officer for fixed income, at Eastspring Investments.
Over the past two years, a “strategy” of “tactically” trading risk has...
Industry viewpoint: Forging fixed income’s future
How technology is enabling data-driven execution and analytics.
In recent years, the electronification of fixed income (FI) markets has been followed by the development of...
Debate heats up around Munis tax exempt status
The Republican Party is considering repealing the tax-exempt status of municipal bonds.
A memorandum circulated by the US House of Representatives Budget Committee and diffused...
Can you guess which market has seen the greatest fall in bid-ask spreads, year-to-date?
Two weeks ago, we asked what was crushing the US investment grade (IG) market’s bid-ask spread. However there has been an even greater reduction...
