IG issuance across US and Europe up 20% on five-year average
US investment grade debt issuance has hit $1.7 trillion year to date (YTD) in 2025, a 12% increase year on year (YoY). That brings...
Bank of England releases detail on index-linked gilt purchases as LDI woes continue
The Bank of England (BoE) has said it continues to monitor developments in financial markets very closely in light of the significant asset repricing...
FINRA returns US$100 million to members, 17 months after announcing fee hike
US broker-dealer trade body, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) is to return US$100 million of fees collected in 2025 to its members as...
Federal Reserve group issues credit risk warning over US Treasuries trading
By Pia Hecher.
The Federal Reserve’s Treasury Market Practices Group (TMPG), which discusses issues in the US government bond market, has said that firms are...
Atte Lahtiranta to join Citadel in early 2025
Citadel has appointed Atte Lahtiranta as head of core engineering. He will join the firm in early 2025.
Atte has close to 30 years of...
Repurchase disagreements
A calamitous year-end in 2016 has put the broken repo market firmly in the spotlight. Lynn Strongin Dodds reports.
December 2016 saw Europe’s repurchase agreement...
Citadel Securities’ new hires are reinforcing US credit market expansion
Citadel Securities has seen a spate of hirings on its credit trading teams in January 2024, supporting its expansion into the corporate bond space...
Pre-Trade data strategy: Optimizing protocol selection in European Credit
By Chris Egan & Aria Pattinson-Spiers: A decision that clients often face is which trading route to take—a high touch or low touch approach....
Finbourne responds to closure of Bloomberg, MarketAxess & Tradeweb consolidated tape project
Finbourne, the financial technology and services firm selected to manage the now defunct joint project between Bloomberg, MarketAxess and Tradeweb to launch a consolidated...
Overbond, SS&C Eze partner to provide AI bond trading analytics
Overbond, a provider of AI-driven data and analytics and trade automation solutions for the global fixed income markets, has partnered with SS&C Eze to...
Octaura partners with CreditSights for enhanced data provisions
Clients of syndicated loans electronic trading, data and analytics firm Octaura will soon be able to access LevFin Insights (FLI) data and news through...
Demand for private debt, IG bonds grows in APAC
Investment grade (IG) bonds, private debt and multi-asset funds will be top of mind for investors over the next year, according to Asian fund...
