Massive buy-side appetite for alternative data as 90% see return on investment
By Flora McFarlane.
Nearly half of asset managers and three-quarters of hedge funds intend to increase spending on alternative data sources in 2018, with 90%...
Issuance up in lower rated debt
Analysis by Morgan Stanley’s team has found that, despite the slowing down of bond issuance globally in August, the higher levels of activity in...
Eurex sees lit credit future liquidity migrate to dark
The Bloomberg / Eurex credit futures conference in mid-January 2026 had all seats taken and attendees standing in the aisles. That bursting enthusiasm was...
Wood leaves Ninety One for Bloomberg
Ed Wood has joined Bloomberg as an electronic trading sales specialist for credit in London.
Last year, Ryan Scott joined the rates electronic sales team...
Surprise at inaccurate US election poll predictions has increased volatility
With a victory for either side being far from clear in the US election, investment commentators have warned of sustained volatility across asset classes....
Vicky Chan returns to HKEX
Hong Kong Exchange & Clearing Limited (HKEX) has appointed Vicky Chan as managing director and head of post trade, effective 5th August. She replaces...
Mosaic taps Euroclear for new data intelligence service
Mosaic Smart Data has launched data intelligence service Smart Markets, which transforms fixed income data into insights for market participants.
Smart Markets enriches, normalises and...
The Fed opens registration for commercial paper facility
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York has opened registration for firms wishing to sell to its Commercial Paper Funding Facility (CPFF).
The commercial paper...
Row erupts as CBOE seeks to define exchange boundaries
An application by multi-asset market operator, CBOE, to define what is considered a ‘facility’ of the exchange, has triggered a row. The firm sought...
RBC joins LCH’s credit default swap platform
The Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) has joined LCH’s credit default swap clearing service, CDSClear.
The platform clears a variety of credit default swap (CDS)...
Mystery surrounds APA failure in European bond markets
European bond market participants are keen to know which post-trade data reporter, known as an approved publication arrangement (APA), has ‘data quality issues’ resulting...
Exclusive: Spencer Lee joins TS Imagine as chief markets officer; sets out strategy
TS Imagine, the trading, portfolio, and risk management system provider, has announced Spencer Lee is joining as chief markets officer, to lead the firm’s...
