Adroit: Fixed income EMSs must reach beyond trading venues
Adroit Trading Technologies has raised US$15 million in a Series A round led by Centana Growth Partners. The cash will be spent on expanding...
Rules & Ratings: Rating agencies hit with US$49 million in SEC fines
The SEC has charged six nationally recognised statistical rating organisations (NRSROs) with failures to maintain and preserve electronic communications. In total, more than US$49...
A flying start to 2024 in European bonds may punish traders
The new year has seen a flying start in bond issuance in Europe, with a strong start relative to recent years driving €8.6 billion...
Eric Heleine leaves Groupama AM, joins AXA IM
Eric Heleine has joined AXA IM as head of electronic trading and data, effective 1 December. He reports to Yannig Loyer, global head of...
New York Fed economists see US Treasury liquidity at crisis levels
Current US Treasury market liquidity is comparable with the 2007-09 global financial crisis and the March 2020 crisis, particularly for the two-year note, according...
Rates : Trading protocols : Dan Barnes
The new Treasuries protocols
Breaking away from the request-for-quote protocol could allow for tighter pricing without information leakage.
Traders engaged in the US Treasury (UST) markets...
Viewpoint: The impact of regulation: Tim Keady
Rearchitecting your compliance framework.
Tim Keady, Managing Director, Head of DTCC Solutions and Chief Client Officer at DTCC.
Since the 2008 financial crisis the industry has confronted numerous waves...
Bank of England: Basel III regulation hurts repo for smaller asset managers
By Shobha Prabhu Naik.
A working paper written by Antonis Kotidis and Neeltje van Horen, staff for the Bank of England, has identified that the...
FILS in Barcelona: No clear resolution on data ownership but much good will
The challenges of data ownership and the commercial provision of data were tackled head on, at the Fixed Income Leaders Summit in Barcelona, with...
MiFID II will push traders to renegotiate block approach
By Flora McFarlane.
Block-trading venues will multiply under MiFID II creating new challenges for buy and sell side say market observers. Venues trading in smaller...
Credit : Back for good : David Wigan
Cautious optimism on Dodd Frank roll-back.
The US regulatory response to the financial crisis has shifted trading risk from sell-side to buy-side desks, making reform welcome....
Chris McConville joins Kepler Cheuvreux
Broker Kepler Cheuvreux has made three major new appointments to support its strategic ambitions in equity brokerage: Stéphane Bouret as global head of equity...
