BlackRock sees rising fixed income allocations
By Pia Hecher.
BlackRock has reported that 38% of buy-side firms intend to increase fixed income allocations in 2019, up from 29% last year.
The firm’s...
House of Representatives hearing: Volcker link to bond illiquidity tenuous
Testimony given to the US House of Representatives on 29 March 2017 suggests the Volcker Rule cannot be directly blamed for poor liquidity in...
Trumid launches emerging markets trading
Fixed income market operator Trumid, has launched emerging markets bond trading on its Trumid Market Center platform.
Market Center connects fixed income professionals to a...
Have US IG trades hit their smallest size this year?
The fires of summer are being replaced by the floods of autumn, but in the bond markets a gentler and more positive outcome is...
MeTheMoneyShow – Episode 26 (Women in Finance Awards 2020)
Dan Barnes and Terry Flanagan discuss some of the highlights of the sixth annual Markets Media, Women in Finance Awards.
To view the virtual awards...
Chart of the week: Get in early
Access to primary bond markets has been a headline topic for buy-side traders over the last four years. As issuance volumes have grown, rising...
Ratings & Analysis: S&P Global taps Snowflake connectivity for private markets investors
Private markets investors are now able to input data from S&P Global’s iLEVEL portfolio monitoring platform directly into their Snowflake environments.
Investors will be able...
ESMA clarifies CTP exclusion criteria documents
ESMA has clarified the documents that firms bidding to be consolidated tape providers (CTP) must provide during the application process.
In the first stage of...
Liquidity recovery continues in European investment grade
The careful return to pre-trade-war bid-ask spread levels continues in European credit markets, according to data from MarketAxess TraX, which assesses trading across multiple...
“Tourists” in emerging markets challenge liquidity
Emerging markets have had a volatile year, intensifying the pressure on asset managers gain better access to liquidity and pricing. Pinebridge Investments’ Chris Perryman,...
Cheung promoted at ICE
Penny Cheung has been promoted to head of interest rate derivatives at ICE.
Based in London, she is responsible for multicurrency interest rate futures and...
MTS BondsPro integrates with TradingScreen
MTS Markets International, operator of MTS BondsPro, an SEC-registered electronic trading platform and alternative trading system (ATS), has integrated BondsPro with TradingScreen, the execution...
