CME Group names Mike Dennis global head of fixed income
CME Group has named Mike Dennis global head of fixed income, effective 5 August.
Dennis will oversee the firm’s largest, most actively traded global benchmark...
Optimising execution in Qatari and Kuwaiti bond sell-off
Buy-side traders need to carefully manage order execution when a bond market moves into or out of an index, as the large directional moves...
ICE: For asset owners, a better way to manage rate volatility
How sophisticated pricing & analytics can inform better risk management and asset allocation choices.
By Patrick Ge, CFA, Fixed Income Specialist, Product Management & Neil Patel,...
European Women in Finance 2022 – The Longlist
In 2020, Best Execution and The DESK hosted the first European Women in Finance Awards, following the model of Markets Media's long-established awards programme....
Franklin Templeton bolsters SMA services
Franklin Templeton has selected IMTC for separately managed accounts (SMA) management.
“Over the next few years, we anticipate significant growth in the SMA space and...
The summer lull barely touches emerging markets
Trading volumes in fixed income markets typically start the year high and gradually fall, matching issuance and refinancing patterns along with investment allocation decisions....
Ex-RBC director joins ItauBBA emerging markets team
Conor Hails has joined the emerging markets rates and foreign exchange sales team at ItauBBA. He is based in New York.
ItauBBA, part of the...
Now the buy side can sell bonds to the Fed – via MarketAxess
Bond market operator, MarketAxess, has been designated as an Eligible Seller for the central bank's Secondary Market Corporate Credit Facility (SMCCF) by the Federal...
CME Group folds FX futures, options, cash and OTC FX business into single unit
CME Group has folded its FX futures, options, cash and over-the-counter (OTC) FX businesses into a single unit led by Paul Houston which the...
Chinese equity sell-off leaves locals “more cautious” on debt
Buy-side traders in the Chinese debt markets are noting some effect from the equity sell-off, which was triggered by concern around government and regulatory...
LTX awarded four patents covering fixed income trading
Broadridge subsidiary LTX has been awarded four new patents on its fixed income trading solutions pertaining to bond similarity technology, dealer selection score technology,...
TransFICC opens office in New York
TransFICC, the provider of low-latency connectivity and workflow services for fixed income and derivatives markets, has opened its new office in New York, staffed...
