Origination: Issuer profile – BNP Paribas
BNP Paribas was the largest bond issuer in Europe in Q2 2025, with €7 billion of debt placed in the market. In total it...
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...
US primary dealer bond trading hits record low
US Treasury market volatility saw a decline in March, according to Coalition Greenwich’s April Data Spotlight on US rates trading. The MOVE Index monthly...
Municipal mean reversion
Dealers are now committing more capital in the muni market but future tax reforms threaten buy-side demand. Chris Hall reports.
Is the US municipal bond...
KfW issues first digital Euro commercial paper via Onbrane
Bond issuance platform, Onbrane, has onboarded KfW, the national development bank of Germany, and processed the first KfW's first Euro commercial paper via Onbrane’s...
RBC names Guy Chalkley as managing director of UK flow rates sales
RBC has named Guy Chalkley as managing director, UK, flow rates sales.
Chalkley, based in London, reports to Kofi Oteng, European head of flow rates...
Clearwater bets on portfolio visualisation services with dual purchase
Clearwater Analytics is acquiring two portfolio visualisation tools to offer a whole-portfolio view for clients across public and private markets.
Beacon provides cross-asset class modelling...
Brett Chappell starts at TransFICC in independent advisory role
TransFICC has engaged Brett Chappell as an independent fixed income expert for market structure and thought leadership.
He previously spent two years at BankInvest as...
TMPG meets to discuss key challenges in the Treasury market structure
The Treasury Market Practices Group (TMPG), an industry roundtable coordinated by the US Federal Reserve (The Fed) met on Tuesday 19 October to discuss...
OpenDoor closes for business
OpenDoor, the trading venue for US Treasuries, has ceased trading, effective 13 January 2021.
In a statement posted online, Susan Estes, CEO and president of...
Coalition Greenwich: 0% impact of ESG on bond trade execution – but is there...
According to new research from Coalition Greenwich, 0% of US-based buy-side bond traders report that environmental, social and governance (ESG) impacted their choice of...
UK to allow shorting of government debt and sovereign CDS
The UK Government has said it will remove requirements currently placed on investors when taking out short positions in sovereign debt or sovereign credit...
