APG selects FlexTrade for multi-asset execution
APG Asset Management (APG) has selected FlexTrade’s execution management platform, FlexTRADER EMS, to consolidate and streamline its multi-asset execution management capabilities.
APG, headquartered in the...
Harrington joins Columbia Threadneedle
Marc Harrington has been appointed as senior fixed income trader at Columbia Threadneedle Investments. Harrington’s carrier as a buy-side bond trader, last saw him...
Flow Traders loses Ramon Baljé
Ramon Baljé, the head of fixed income at Flow Traders, the prominent Dutch market maker, is leaving the firm after six years.
During his tenure,...
LedgerEdge selects Eventus for DLT-based corporate bond platform
LedgerEdge, the corporate bond trading platform being developed on distributed ledger technology (DLT), has selected Validus, a real-time trade surveillance platform built by Eventus...
How the ICMA got firm on bond pricing
Buy-side traders have long decried the lack of executable price in bond markets. For the best part of a decade the electrification of these...
Rules & Ratings: S&P warns on forecast uncertainty
S&P Global Ratings has said it believes a high degree of unpredictability exists around policy implementation by the US administration and possible responses regarding...
Philip Fielding joins Fidelity International
Philip Fielding has joined Fidelity International as a portfolio manager for emerging market debt. He is based in London.
With close to 20 years of...
BlueCrest hit by £40m fine by FCA
Fund manager BlueCrest has been fined just over £40 million by the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) for inadequate disclosures to investors, regarding its...
Lucid Capital Markets appoints Jamie Terranova
Lucid Capital Markets, an independent capital market firm based in New York, has appointed Jamie Terranova as managing director and head of fixed income.
Terranova will...
Concannon joins MarketAxess from CBOE; New US exchange to fight incumbents
Bond venue operator and data provider MarketAxess has named Chris Concannon, as president and chief operating officer, effective as of January 22, 2019.
He will...
Bloomberg Terminal releases document search and analysis feature
Bloomberg is expanding the artificial intelligence capabilities of the Bloomberg Terminal with a document search and analysis solution.
The new service is expected to allow...
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...
