Rules and Ratings: Moody’s sees improving credit fundamentals driving leveraged finance deals
As interest rates decline, credit fundamentals will improve in 2025 and defaults will ease, according to analysis from credit rating agency Moody’s.
“Investors will hunt...
Primary markets: The choices facing buy-side traders
Ted Douglas, Co-Head of Global Fixed Income, Capital Formation at IHS Markit spoke to The DESK about the dynamics of bond issuance for the...
NowCM and Liquidnet look to accelerate new issue workflow
The NowCM Group, a system and infrastructure provider for the primary debt markets, has worked with Liquidnet, the investment and block trading specialist, to...
Investor Demand: Retail to rule private markets, institutional investors say
Institutional investors expect their retail counterparts to dominate private markets over the next two years, according to a recent State Street survey.
Retail-style vehicles will...
New BrokerTec RFQ platform for European repo
By Pia Hecher.
Dealer-to-dealer electronic trading platform BrokerTec is preparing to launch BrokerTec Quote, a dealer-to-client request for quote (RFQ) trading system for the European...
Bloomberg launches market-driven daily credit risk indicator
Bloomberg is offering its Market-Implied Probability of Default (MIPD) product, a market-driven creditworthiness indicator, to both Enterprise Data and Bloomberg Terminal clients globally. MIPD...
Report: Buy-side traders often still seen as ‘trading support’
A new report by Liquidnet entitled ‘Unbundling Best Execution: What do traders need to know?’ has found that while most buy-side trading desks are...
Matthew Cousens joins Clear Street
Matthew Cousens has been appointed EMEA head of electronic execution at Clear Street. He is based in London.
Clear Street held US$49 billion in assets...
Parameta Solutions launches post-trade analytics platform for bonds
Parameta Solutions, the brand of TP ICAP’s Data & Analytics division, has launched a global post-trade analytics platform, Trading Analytics. The new offering is...
TMX Vettafi acquires Credit Suisse bond indices from UBS
TMX VettaFi, a subsidiary of TMX Group, acquires Credit Suisse’s bond indices from UBS. The acquired bond index franchise encompasses indices covering government, credit,...
This Week from Trader TV: Bill Mann, Motley Fool Asset Management
AI capex lifts tech, but risks loom over infrastructure bottlenecks and tariff volatility.
A wave of AI-driven capital spending by major tech firms boosted US...
Glimpse Markets launches data-sharing for buy-side trading desks
Glimpse Markets, a new post-trade data sharing platform for fixed income, aims to turn data costs of the buy-side on their head, by providing...
