Mapfre adopts Aladdin for execution, investment management
Mapfre AM, the asset management division of Spanish insurance company Mapfre which holds €57 billion in assets under management, has adopted BlackRock’s investment management...
Julian Hill joins UBS Asset Management
UBS Asset Management has hired Julian Hill as a fixed-income rates trader in London.
Hill arrives from Bloomberg, where he spent 18 months as...
Governance key to EU consolidated bond tape’s success
The International Capital Markets Association (ICMA) has published a report outlining the possible routes to delivering a successful consolidated tape of price data of...
The Book: Türkiye issues its first digitally native note
Türkiye İş Bankası (İşbank) has issued Türkiye’s first digitally native note (DNN), facilitated by Euroclear.
The US$100 million DNN was issued on Euroclear’s Digital Financial...
IHS Markit’s thinkFolio and Wave Labs partner
IHS Markit’s thinkFolio investment platform is partnering with Wave Labs, a firm that has created fixed income tools to deliver a functional window for...
AxeTrading and Mosaic Smart Data collaborate on bond market analytics
AxeTrading, the fixed income trading software provider, and Mosaic Smart Data, the real-time capital markets data analytics company, are integrating the AxeTrader execution management...
ICE Bonds builds on corporate bond volume records
ICE Bonds has introduced price improvement volume clearing (PIVC) to its risk matching auction (RMA) corporate bonds protocol.
RMA executes dealer-to-dealer sweep auctions, matching buyers...
FCA voices concern over buy-side transparency
By Pia Hecher.
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has reported concern around cost-disclosures by asset managers, and following a ‘Call for Input’ (CfI), also detected concerns among...
Insights and Analysis: Uncertainty reigns in trade war, rate impact expected
The inevitable effect of increased tariffs imposed by the US markets on trade partners – which may include the European Union, Canada and Mexico...
ICE: Muni Bonds – an interview with Ed Paulinski
In ICE’s series ‘The Munis Ecosystem’, ICE gathers experts from across the sector: issuers, portfolio managers, pricing & analytics, trading and climate experts, to...
Thomas Pluta named president-elect at Tradeweb
Tradeweb Markets has named markets veteran Thomas Pluta as its next president. He will join Tradeweb from JP Morgan, where he spent nearly 27...
Ben Londergan joins Simplex Trading
Simplex Trading has appointed Ben Londergan as managing director of strategic business development.
In the Chicago-based role, Londergan is responsible for driving the firm’s growth...
