BOB Secondary: US Credit has never had it so good
Liquidity in US credit has improved significantly over the past year, with bid-ask spreads lower than any point in 2022, according to MarketAxess’s CP+...
JP Morgan leads Q1 trading results, Dimon calls for deregulation
JP Morgan raced ahead of competitors in fixed income trading revenues over the first three months of 2025, reporting over US$1 billion more than...
Eurex: How global credit will work in futures
Eurex Credit Index Futures have moved from product innovation to much broader institutional adoption. This growth reflects a wider evolution in credit markets: clients...
Get your trade dressed to kill (or execute)
Getting a trade to look attractive to a counterparty gets harder the more illiquid, large, and specific it is. As the purpose of a...
MarketAxess sees third quarter ADV growth of 32% in credit and 41% in rates
MarketAxess saw total average daily volume (ADV) in Q3 2022 increase by 32% over the same period in 2021, with rates ADV up 41%...
J.P. Morgan: Finding the best path in e-trading fixed income
Electronic trading may resolve key structural challenges in the market for buy-side traders, including instrument selection, with guidance from key dealers.
Chinedum Nzelu, head of...
Denmark FSA investigating bond funds’ double-figure losses
Sources report the Danish Financial Services Authority (DFSA) has launched an investigation into fund losses from mortgage bond holdings, as rising interest rates have...
Beyond Liquidity: Rebundling Research Will Not Increase Demand for UK SMEs
With the implementation of MiFID II in 2018 came the unbundling of payments for investment research from trading commissions. The perceived benefit of unbundling...
Björkman joins Credit Suisse as the head of execution for fixed income
Mikael Björkman has joined Credit Suisse’s private bank as the head of Execution in Fixed Income, joining from UBS’ private bank where he was...
FIX Trading Community releases guidelines on commission unbundling
By Flora McFarlane.
A new report has set out practices to follow for pre- and post-trade representation of commission steps across all asset classes.
With under...
Beer leaves Aberdeen for MFS
Russell Beer has joined MFS Investment Management as an emerging markets debt trader.
As of June 30 2025, MFS Investment held US$635.4 billion in assets...
On The Desk: Carl James: On changing trader culture
Moving to a data-led model of trading requires a change in culture across the desk, as Pictet Asset Management’s head of Fixed Income Trading...
