Market gives cautious response to Sweden’s ‘detail-lite’ MiFID II deal
The Swedish presidency of the Council of the European Union (Council) reached a last-minute agreement with the EU Parliament on proposed changes to the...
Khazen joins LMAX
FX and digital assets exchange LMAX Group has named Ilya Khazen as head of cross-asset sales. Based in New York, he reports to managing...
Investor demand: Dollar weakness trumps French political instability
Despite a French sovereign debt downgrade to A+ by Fitch over the weekend, the euro has risen to new highs for the year (1.188)...
Bellamy joins TrinityBridge
James Bellamy has joined TrinityBridge as a multi-asset dealer. He is based in London.
TrinityBridge, formerly known as Close Brothers Asset Management, held £20.4 billion...
TMPG meets to discuss key challenges in the Treasury market structure
The Treasury Market Practices Group (TMPG), an industry roundtable coordinated by the US Federal Reserve (The Fed) met on Tuesday 19 October to discuss...
Industry viewpoint : Mark Goodman : UBS
THE PERILS OF NOSTALGIA.
Mark Goodman, Managing Director, Global Head of Electronic Trading – FX, Rates and Credit at UBS.
‘Nostalgia’ is a modern word, coined by a...
Rock Springs Capital appoints T Rowe’s Williams as head of trading
Clive Williams, who led equity trading at T Rowe Price for nearly two decades, has been appointed head of trading at Rock Springs Capital...
Industry viewpoint: New strategies for corporate bond index futures in 2023
David Litchfield, director for derivatives sales at Cboe Global Markets, explains how Cboe corporate bond index futures are supporting traders in a highly changeable environment.
The...
EM stabilising could encourage market makers
Emerging market activity has seen a reduction in volatility in the first half of the year, with both volumes and pricing levels falling slightly,...
S&P Global launches credit risk research chatbot
S&P Global has launched a chatbot on its S&P Capital IQ Pro market intelligence platform in an effort to simplify the credit risk research...
MarketAxess outperforms competition in October through slower month
US electronic credit trading slowed down in October. FINRA’s TRACE tape recorded combined US investment-grade (IG) and high-yield (HY) average daily volume (ADV) at...
Hidden regulatory risk in CSDR
An apparently back-office focused rule, the Central Securities Depositories Regulation (CSDR), could have a serious impact on bond market liquidity, when it comes into...
