Piper Sandler builds out fixed income team with Brian Vescio hire
Investment bank Piper Sandler has appointed Brian Vescio as managing director and head of structured products trading to the firm’s fixed income team. He...
David Blake leaves Northern Trust as director for Global Fixed Income
David Blake has left Northern Trust Global Investments as director for Global Fixed Income, after 15 years at the firm, following a restructuring of...
Banca IMI: Lessons for europe
As europe braces for the impact of MiFID II’s transparency requirements on an illiquid corporate bond market, some traders are at an advantage. A...
Union Investment imposes a purchase ban on Russian state bonds and sanctioned companies
Union Investment has decided to impose an immediate ban on the purchase of all securities of the Russian state and a number of Russian...
Electronic credit platforms report fresh rises in trading volumes for March and Q1
Electronic bond market operators saw a new boost to volumes in March, and in the first quarter more broadly, as volatility in capital markets...
Enhancing trading through better surveillance
Trade surveillance, like best execution, can be harder to analyse in fixed income markets due to the complexity of instruments, access to data and...
SIX acquires majority stake in fixed income data firm FactEntry
SIX has acquired a majority stake in FactEntry, a global provider of fixed income reference data, analytics, and solutions for financial market participants.
The acquisition,...
Credit trading desks seeing job cuts & hiring freezes, adding to operational pressure
Reports of reduction in headcount on buy-side trading desks at BlackRock, Nuveen and Wellington with cuts also reported at investment banks, are demonstrating the...
AFME and IA agree on UK consolidated bond tape
The Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) has reached an agreement with the Investment Association (IA) on a proposal for a future UK...
Henriques poached by HilltopSecurities
HilltopSecurities has named Drew Henriques co-head of High Yield Municipal Trading, having poached him from Citi. He had been a high yield municipal trader...
Nicanor Trano promoted at BNP Paribas
BNP Paribas has appointed Nicanor Trano as head of AUD & USD rates trading for APAC.
Trano has 20 years of industry experience, and has...
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Axess IQTM: The eyes and ears of the market
Over the past twelve months, MarketAxess in partnership with Insigneo rolled out a pilot program to put...
