Emerging markets’ big issues in 2022
According to analysis by CreditSights, there has been a negative total return for credit in emerging markets with the exception of Gulf Cooperation Council...
Bond Origination Technologies set to launch early 2021
Bond Origination Technologies (Bots), a London-based financial technology start-up for the primary debt capital markets (DCM), has completed its latest fundraising round, formed its...
Overbond launches real-time AI bond pricing trading product
Fixed income analytics provider, Overbond, has launched COBI-Pricing LIVE, a new real-time AI bond pricing product. COBI-Pricing LIVE is designed to process real-time historical...
Platforms: What the winners are doing right
A few platforms have consistently gained buy-side confidence over the last five years, through smart assistance and simplification of trading workflow.
The three ‘O’s of...
State Street issues $1 Billion of senior debt
State Street has issued $1 billion in aggregate principal amount of senior debt. The offering, which closed 20 August, was structured in line with...
Morgan Stanley: EM issuance in 2024 to outstrip 2023
Assessment from Morgan Stanley has found sovereign hard currency gross issuance is likely to increase to US$164 billion in 2024 due to more open...
Juan Landazabal appointed COO Investments at GAM
Veteran of fixed income trading, Juan Landazabal, was promoted to chief operations officer (COO) for investments at asset manager GAM at the end of...
Dogfight in credit e-trading as platforms see double figure growth
Average daily volumes (ADV) for Tradeweb’s cash rates trading were US$455 billion for the month of July, the company reported, with overall government bond...
Franklin Templeton to buy Putnam Investments
Franklin Templeton has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Putnam Investments from Great-West for approximately US$925 million largely in equities.
Great-West will become...
Greenwich Associates: Fixed income desks see highest buy-side tech spend
Technology spend on buy-side trading desks rose 4% in 2019 from the previous year, to reach US$2.2 million on average, with fixed-income trading desks...
Tradeweb executes first bilateral multi-asset package list trade
Tradeweb has completed the first fully electronic bilateral multi-asset package list trade, made between Citi and the Pension Insurance Corporation (PIC).
The service’s launch follows...
TransFICC: Technology in the spotlight
RFQ growth and DORA compel firms to focus on system capacity, high performance, complex workflow automation, and disaster recovery (DR).
The fixed income market structure...
