Rules & Ratings: Ratings agencies spar in private ratings legitimacy debacle
KBRA has hit back at Fitch Ratings’ claims that private credit ratings are inaccurate, stating that the agency has damaged its reputation and integrity...
SEC report highlights dealer threat to buy-side allocations in primary markets
US market regulator, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), has reported buy-side firms feel pressured not to publicly speak out about the challenges of...
Trumid sees return on investment: 2017 daily trade volumes doubled
By Flora McFarlane.
Trumid, the all-to-all electronic credit trading platform, reports it has has doubled 2017 daily trade volumes on last year.
The finTech firm reports...
Citi clears CDS index option trades through ICE Clear Credit
Investment bank Citi has traded and cleared the first client-executed credit default swap (CDS) index option trades in the US through ICE Clear Credit,...
Dark trading limits to apply from March after reporting failures
*Update* The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) will only apply the double volume cap (DVC) mechanism for trading European equities from March 2018,...
Sabina Awan joins Rokos Capital Management
Sabina Awan has joined Rokos Capital Management as a trading solutions consultant.
The London-based alternative investment fund manager covers global macro asset classes and holds...
Seize the opportunity to apply AI in quieter bond markets
Secondary credit trading is seeing lower volumes as expected in the summer months, whilst bid-ask spreads have plateaued across Europe and the US markets,...
Mitsubishi HC Capital UK raises €60m on TreasurySpring with first sustainable fixed-term fund
Mitsubishi HC Capital UK, a provider of consumer lending, asset finance and vehicle leasing, has borrowed more than €60 million on TreasurySpring’s platform by...
IHS Markit: Investor Access doubles investor use
By Pia Hecher.
Information and analytics provider IHS Markit announced that 320 investment firms are participating on its Investor Access platform. The number of buy-side...
US Treasuries market picks up the electronic pace due to Covid-19
Covid-19 has triggered a “dramatic” shift in US Treasuries, the world’s largest bond market towards electronic execution from traditional voice trading, according to a...
Paul Mutter takes major fixed income role at TD Securities
Following a string of recent high profile ex-Goldman appointments across the industry, TD Securities has tapped Goldman veteran Paul Mutter as managing director, head...
Morgan Stanley begins trading listed FX at Eurex
Eurex has reported that Morgan Stanley has entered the listed FX business of the European derivatives exchange. As a major participant in the global...
